I want you to turn in your Bibles
back to the book of Galatians, the fourth chapter. In the month of September of
this year, I will have been your pastor
28 years. The message that I have prepared
to bring you this morning, I have taken from the words of
the Apostle Paul, because I feel a very definite and personal
identification with the way that Paul felt when he wrote these
words. I preached to you longer than
he preached to them, by far. Not as effectively, I'm sure,
not as compassionately or even as affectionately, not with power,
but the same gospel, the same message. And after preaching to them and
now being in prison and probably never, as far as he knew at this
time, ever having the opportunity to preach to them again, he said,
I wish I was back there. I'd like to change my voice. I'd like to say a few more words
because I'm in doubt about some of you. I'm troubled, greatly
troubled. I'm distressed in spirit about
your relationship with God. Your zeal is evident, your enthusiasm,
but I'm troubled, he said. There's some evidences that trouble
me about your relationship with Christ. Now, Paul had faithfully
preached the gospel to them. We can't question that. He had
faithfully preached the gospel to them. In verse 4, this is
the gospel he preached. When the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth his Son. Paul had preached to them the
gospel of sovereign love. When the fullness of time was
come, God sent his Son. Man didn't send for the Son,
God sent the Son. He was motivated by God's sovereign
love. and God's sovereign grace. When
the fullness of time was come, when God's time had arrived for
a revelation of His Son, when all of the types and shadows
and prophecies and promises and pictures had all been fulfilled,
when the time was just right on God's timetable, when it pleased
the Lord, God, according to His own will, sent His Son into this
world. We didn't seek Him, He sought
us. We didn't love Him, He loved us. We didn't send for Christ,
God sent His Son. And oh, the love of God that
would cause Him to send His Son to die for traitors and rebels
and strangers and aliens and foreigners and the chief of sinners.
Rebels! It'd be like... When we read about someone, I
read recently about a young citizen of this country who sold to the
Russians some of our most guarded secret material. And I thought,
how could he do that? How could he betray his mother
and father and his brother and his sister and his nieces and
nephews and the young people of this country and the nation
had given him protection and liberty and freedom? The rights
that a person has who lives, how could he do it? And yet we
did the same thing in God's kingdom, traitors and rebels. And yet,
instead of sentencing us to eternal wrath and damnation and death,
as this young man probably will receive, because he must receive
justice without mercy. He's a traitor, a rebel. You
and I have received mercy and Christ got the justice in our
place. You think about that. God sent
his son to take the wrath and judgment that we rebels and traitors
who sold out to Satan. We sold out. We tried to throw
God off the throne. And he sent his son down here
to take our judgment. That's the gospel Paul preached
to them, the gospel of sovereign love. When the fullness of time,
of the time was come, God in mercy and grace and sovereign
love sent his son. He'd go down there and save those
rebels, redeem those traitors. And then he said he was made
of a woman, made under the law. Here's the gospel of substitution. Christ came down here, and I
don't know whether we fully comprehend what Paul is saying here, but
Christ, the infinite of days, became an infant of days, the
ancient of days, confined Himself to the womb that He had made. He made the womb, He made a woman,
He made the earth, and yet He came down here and Somebody said,
if an angel could be brought down to the place of a maggot,
now you think about the difference in a holy angel who stands in
the presence of God, who does his will, and a wiggling, vile,
loathsome maggot. That wouldn't be near, not one
ten millionth of the condescension of Christ becoming a man. lower
than the maggot. Christ became a man. He took
on himself human flesh. The Son of God became a man. I can't explain that. I just
know it so. He was made of a woman. And he
was made under his own law, in subjection to his own law. God doesn't do anything because
it's right. It's right because God does it.
He's the measurement of right and truth. And yet he became
a human being in subjection to all these things. In subjection
and under a boiling sun, thirst. He knew no thirst. He knew thirst
now because he became a man. Hunger, weariness, pain, sorrow,
tears. All of these things, Christ made
himself subject to these things that were upon us as a result
of our sin and our fall. He was numbered with the transgressors. He identified himself with us,
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. That's substitution. That's what it took to redeem
sinners, substitution. Christ had to do everything for
me. that the Heavenly Father commanded,
demanded, expected, required. He had to meet every jot and
tittle of the law. He had to go to the lowest place
for the lowest man. He had to be tested and tempted
and tried in all points exactly as we are and do it without a
murmur, without an idle thought, without an evil word, without
an objection. without a thought of objection.
And that's what he did. Made of a woman. We see these
little fancy pictures with a pretty woman holding a little baby with
a halo around his head and all of these things. There's a sense,
and I understand what I'm saying, there's a sense in which Christ
was a special child. But there's a sense in which
he was an ordinary child. Just a human being. That's right. Despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrows and acquainted
with greed. Oh, the burden, the weight of
our guilt. It was on him from the time...
Actually, Christ is our surety from eternity past. He stood
for us. He's our representative. The
only thing that kept God from sending Adam to hell the minute
he rebelled was Christ. There was a Savior before there
was ever a sinner. He's the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. He's the designated surety. He's
our representative. But from the time that He became
flesh, not just on Calvary, but from the time He became flesh,
our guilt was upon Him. He was identified with us. in
every step we've ever taken, that any elect of the elect has
ever taken. Christ has been there. Made of
a woman, God became a man. The Word became flesh and dwelt
among us. He made the world, but He was
in the world and the world knew Him not. One reason they didn't
know Him is because He didn't look like a God. He looked like
a man. Why, they said, we know who this
is, this is the carpenter, just like any other carpenter. And
the sense of the word, he was just like any other carpenter,
to be identified with any other carpenter. And then Paul preached
to them the gospel of satisfaction. Look at verse 5, to redeem them.
When the fullness of the time was come, God sent his Son into
the world, made of a woman, made under his law. And so much under
that law that when that law was extracting injustice from Christ,
the due penalty of the broken law, the Father turned His back. And He came to redeem us, not
to put forth an effort to redeem us, but He redeemed us. Satisfaction. That's the gospel of satisfaction.
Christ redeemed us from bondage, from wrath, from judgment, from
hell, from death, from all things. He redeemed us. When our Lord
cried, it is finished, it was finished. What was finished?
Our redemption. That we might receive the adoption
of sons. I regret to say that I received
a paper from a dear friend of mine not long ago who was trying
to preach a general atonement and a special adoption. He made
this statement. I don't understand this. He said
redemption and adoption are different. He redeemed everybody and adopted
only his elect. I understand that, especially
in the light of this verse, to redeem them that were under the
law that we might receive the adoption of sons. He redeemed his sons. He redeemed
the adopted. He redeemed us. He paid the debt.
There's nothing left to pay. Jesus paid it all. All the debt
I owe. Sin left a crimson stain. He
washed it white as snow. I'm redeemed because Christ died
for me. The ransom's been paid. If He
bore my sins, I don't bear them. If He paid my debt, I don't owe
it. If He satisfied God's justice, it's satisfied. If He didn't,
it's not. It awaits me at the judgment.
Redeem them. He redeemed them. That's the
gospel he preached. The gospel of sovereign mercy, sovereign
love. The gospel of substitution. Christ
in my place. The gospel of satisfaction. Jesus
Christ the Lord did it all without any cooperation from any creature.
The royal bath in which black souls are washed white from the
deadness and corruption and defilement of their sins was drawn from
the veins of Jesus Christ, and only from his veins. There is a fountain filled with
blood, but it is drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunged beneath
that flood lose all their guilty stains. And dear dying lamb,
thy precious blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed
church of God be saved to sin no more. And ever since by faith
I saw that stream, his flowing wound supply, redeeming love
has been my theme, and by God's grace it will be till I die.
There is where you find cleansing. And cleanse thou art cleansed.
There's where you find redemption and redeemed, thou art redeemed.
There's where you find forgiveness and forgiven, thou art forgiven. Don't bring me any installment
payments to make on a purchase my Lord Jesus Christ gave me
as a gift. It's an insult to his mercy. Paul preached the gospel of satisfaction. And he preached the gospel of
sonship. I like this. He said, and because you are
sons, you are sons. Beloved, behold what manner of
love God hath bestowed on us, undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving,
that we should be called sons of God. Sons of God. Paul's my son. That's special. My son, he feels a specialty of it. I
feel the specialty of it. I'm a son of God. You think about
that. I'm God's son. Old Barnard, you
say, whoopee, look at me, I'm God's son. You feel that way? I'm God's son. You girls, daughters,
daughters of God. I'm special. I'm God's son. What manner of love! He hath
bestowed on us that we should be called sons of God! Now, don't
look at me and think this is the best God's going to do. It
doth not yet appear what I'm going to be. I know when He appears. You know I'm going to be just
like Him? I've got a future you can't even explain or describe. I'm going to be like Christ.
And he that hath this hope in him, he purifies himself as he
is pure. Your son. That's the gospel he
preached to them. And read on. And he preached
the gospel of eternal glory. He says, and because you're sons,
God sent forth the Spirit of his Son. And verse 7 says, you're
no more a servant, you're a son. And if you're a son, you're an
heir. I'm the richest person in the universe. I'm an heir
of God. I'm an heir of God. I'm a joint
heir with Jesus Christ. Everything the Lord Jesus Christ
has is mine. Everything Jesus Christ the Lord
is, is mine. That's right. Where He is, I
am, and what He is, I am, and where He shall reign, I shall
reign. I shall reign with Him. Think about that. An heir of
God and a joint heir with the Lord Jesus Christ. Now that's
the gospel Paul preached to these folks. Free grace, sovereign
love, substitution, complete satisfaction, sonship, eternal
glory. All the praise and honor and
glory was under Christ. We were recipients of His mercy. We added nothing to His glory
except in Christ. We contributed nothing. It was
a free gift of God's merciful grace. He forgave us because
He would. He redeemed us because He would. It seemed good in His sight.
He came along and gave to the beggar the mercies of heaven. He clothed the ragged in the
righteousness of His Son. He washed the defiled. He healed
the sick. He raised the dead. He gave sight
to those spiritually blind. He caused my deaf ears to hear
His voice and my lame legs to walk and my fallen heart to rejoice. He did it all. Bless your heart
after preaching that to those folks. Here the Apostle Paul
is sitting down there writing these present epistles, trouble
in his soul. He's concerned. He says in verse
11, look at this verse, he said, I'm afraid, trouble. Have I bestowed upon you labor
in vain? Well, these services, these messages,
this preaching, this missionary trip, these prayers and messages,
are they in vain? And then down here in verse 20,
he says, I desire, oh, I'd like to be there to change my voice. I stand in doubt of you." You
think about that. He said there are too many troublesome
signs which indicate that you have not entered into the peace
of Christ, the true rest of Christ, the true faith of Christ. And he points them out. We're
going to look at them. Now here, verse 19, is his one
concern, and we preachers who are here this morning, we need
to look at this verse and look at it and look at it until God
actually burns it into our souls. His one concern, he says, my
little children, of whom I travail, these are birth pains. He says,
like a woman in birth pains, like a woman who begins to feel
those pains closer and closer and nearer and nearer and goes
to the hospital and lies there on that bed and feels those pains. The whole world is shut out.
She's not thinking about a tea she's going to give, or a supper
she's going to fix, or a wedding she's going to attend, or if
possible, she's even shut out her husband and her little children.
She's engrossed in one thing, trying to bring into the world
a living child and help it all she can. I travail till Christ
be formed in you. The panting of this preacher's
heart, that's the desire of this preacher's soul, that's the one
concern of this preacher's mind. I travail like a woman in birth
pains, endeavoring to bring forth a living child, to Christ be
formed in you. Not the doctrines of Christ only,
though you can't separate the teacher from his teaching. Not
the news of Christ only, not just the benefits of Christ only,
but Christ himself be formed in you. Paul said, I feel like
until he is, till Christ be formed in you, created in you, renewed
in you, received in you, that I've labored in vain. Oh, I believe Jesus died on the
cross and was buried and rose again. Brother Mann taught me
that. Well, he taught you in vain unless you died with him
and was buried and rose again. Oh, I'm a Calvinist. I believe
God's sovereign and man depraved and Christ's death is effectual
and the Holy Spirit irresistibly awakens sinners' hearts and the
saints will persevere. Brother Paul taught me that,
where he labored in vain unless the person of Christ, not his
doctrine, the person be formed in you. A right thought of Christ
in your mind, and having a right thought of
Christ, you have a right thought of others. Let this mind be in
you which was also in Christ Jesus, who thought it not robbery
to be equal with God, yet made himself of no reputation. A humble
spirit, a humble mind. When the humble Christ, the submissive
Christ, if I have the right mind about Christ, I'll have the right
thoughts about myself and you and everybody else. And then
a right love for Christ. If any man loves not our Lord
Jesus Christ, let him be anathema. Let him be accursed when Jesus
comes. Cursed be every one that loveth
not our Lord Jesus Christ." A sincere love for Christ, a consecration
and devotion to Christ. And when I love Christ, I'll
have His love for others that Christ formed in you. And then
a complete trust in Christ. And when I trust in Christ, I
won't trust in the flesh, my flesh or yours. I'll put the
flesh in the right perspective, with the right attitude. And my confidence and my trust
will not be in myself, but in Him. And I'll see the vanity
of this whole world when I get hold of Christ and He's formed
in my heart. Then I'll look on things in a
different light. We've got too many things now
to play with. We've got too many things, we're
just materialism. I don't know, I tell you, when
my complete trust, I don't need anything really but Christ. We
don't need these things, we just don't need them. And we've got
the wrong attitude towards the things of this world, accumulating
them, possessions, and things that are actually detrimental
to our relationship with God. Well, when I come to trust Him,
when He's formed in my heart, the glitter glows away from the
world's gold, because I've seen the Lord. And the diamonds don't shine
quite like they used to, because I've seen the glory of God shining
in the face of Christ Jesus. And Abraham dwelt in tents, because
he's looking for a city. He hadn't moved into one, see,
so he was looking for one. He didn't dig. He didn't do like
some of us do. Some of us have done. He didn't
drive his stakes so deep he couldn't pull them up in just about that
five seconds, you know. They just tapped into the ground.
Just enough to hold that old tent, keep the wind blowing it
away. And when God told him to skeed that over somewhere else,
he could move pretty quick because he didn't have his roots so deep. So deep. Keep on digging them. Keep on bearing them, and God
will bear you with them. Am I your enemy if I tell you
the truth? Keep on getting involved in everything but God, and when
God damns them, He'll damn you with them. That's the truth. Abraham looked for a city. When
we look upon Christ, when He is so precious and beautiful,
These other things aren't that attractive. They just aren't
that attractive. They can be turned loose off
pretty easily because they're just not worth a whole lot anyhow. Just drop them. It's like the
man that found the treasure in the field. He sold everything
he had because he wanted that. He wanted that. And we're hanging
on to everything we've got and looking at it. We haven't sold
out to possess it. The only way you can possess
it is sell out, because that's what it costs. Till Christ be formed in you,
a complete trust in Christ, a hunger and thirst for Christ. Just give
me a word from him. Just give me a morsel of his
heavenly bread. Just give me a sip of his refreshing
water of life. If I can't hear the gospel, I'll
quit my job and move where I can hear it. That's right. If I can't worship God, I'll
find a place where I can. So it's easy if you say you're a
preacher. I don't know. I don't know. But I'll tell you this. I'll
tell you this. To have an acquaintance with
Christ is one thing. To be married to Christ is another. To be married to Christ is to
take His name. To be married to Christ is to
share His reproach. To be married to Christ is to
be identified with Him. I'll tell you something else.
To accept the benefits of Christ's death is one thing. To be involved
in Christ's death is another thing. Paul said, I'm crucified
with Christ. God forbid that I should glory
save in the cross by which I am crucified to the world and the
world is crucified to me. I tell you this, to own Christ
as my Savior is one thing, for Christ to own me is another. I don't know anybody that doesn't
own Christ as their Savior. In fact, a lot of folks, he said,
are going to come to the judgment and say, Lord, wait a minute
now, we preached in your name and prophesied and cast out devils
and did many wonderful things. I never knew you. I never owned
you. That's quite another thing. For
Christ to own me as my Lord. Who is your Lord? Barnard used
to say, son, everybody is talking about Jesus as your Savior, but
he said, I want to know who is your Lord? Who is your Lord? Just stop just a moment and think. Who is your Lord? Now, whoever
your Lord is, that's whose servant you are. It doesn't matter who
it is. It may be the world, it may be
the people you work for. It may be your own ambition.
It may be your family. Who's your Lord? Who's your master? Who controls your thoughts? Your
ambitions. Who draws your blueprints? Who dominates your thinking and
your life? That's your Lord. And if that's
not Jesus Christ, you've missed the gospel. That's so, Tim. That's so. It doesn't matter
who it is. Me, your preacher, singer Mike, whoever it is. If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth Jesus to be Lord, And believe in thine heart, God hath raised
him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. That's what Scripture
says. God is not the valet who stands
in the other room waiting for you to call. But the opposite is true. We're
the servant, we're the bond slave who waits the master's call.
That's right. We've turned around today to
pacify men, to get everybody in. To talk about religious matters,
listen to me. Am I your enemy if I tell you
the truth? Would you feel that way about it? Your real enemies
are those who don't tell you the truth. Your real enemy is
your own heart that lets you trust in a false profession and
rely upon an old experience and to claim Jesus Christ as your
Savior while you labor to serve this old world. That's your enemy. The man that says, peace, peace,
when there's no peace? You know there's no peace. Where
is your peace? Where is the joy that first I
knew, that once I knew when first I met the Lord? Where is that
soul-refreshing view of Jesus and His, where is that? Where
is that peace? Christ said, I give my, I give
you peace. Well, you have Christ, where's
your peace? Christ said, come unto me, I'll give you rest.
You say you've come to him, where's your rest? That's a good question,
isn't it? To talk about religious matters
occasionally and to pay a visit to the house of God on Sunday
is one thing, to walk with the king is something else. Enoch walked with God. Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsels of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in
that law doth he meditate at least once a week." No, it says day and night. You
know what it says? He shall be like a tree planted
by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.
The ungodly are not so. They are like the chaff that
the wind bloweth here and there. They are this way today and that
way tomorrow, here today and gone tomorrow. Wavering like
the troubled sea. Where is this rock? Where is
this foundation? Where is this I shall not be
moved? Where is all this Bible talk? and worldly living. I don't understand this just
don't meet, does it? There's something wrong here. These folks in the book of Acts
says they continued daily with one accord, breaking bread and
fellowship from house to house. They had all things common. Entreat me not to leave thee,
nor to depart from following after thee. Where you lodge,
I lodge. Where you go, I go. Your people
shall be my people. You're God, my God. And where
you die, I die. And where you're buried, there
I'll be buried. These are words that we can find
to some historical character in the dim past, but this is
God. God Almighty, instead of filling the whole world full
of books and reference books like all this stuff we've got
on our study shelves that get us all confused, He put it in
one volume. And He gave us that precious
words of that precious girl who knew something about dedication. That's all right, she said. I'll
go where you go. And somehow I believe that's
there for a purpose. The purpose of showing us a living
union with Jesus Christ. To trust an old experience. People
always tell me, well, I'm saved. When were you saved? Twenty-odd
years ago? Ten years ago? Fifteen years
ago? I know I'm saved. Don't bother me now. Don't trouble
me. I'm restless and unhappy and don't have any peace and
joy and all confused and living for the world. No interest in
the Bible. But I'm saved. Well, I don't know anything about that
kind of salvation. I don't think God's Word knows anything about
that salvation. The salvation of God's Word is for Christ to
be formed in you. And Paul said, I'm here at this
church at Galatia. These false teachers had come
down and these folks had had been influenced and taken away
from the gospel of Christ and the foundation had been laid
and him who had called them to the grace of God so easily led
astray, so easily influenced by just anybody that comes along. Paul said, I'm afraid of trouble. I'm troubled. Have I labored
in vain? Have we preached and nobody's
heard? Brethren, I'm not too concerned about a
time and a place. I think that's a waste of time.
I think the Pharisees can always give you a time and place when
they say. I believe a fellow's trusting in experience. He's
trusting a decision. I think he could take you back
and tell you when he did this or when he did that or when he
did the other. But the true believer, he knows his salvation reaches
back further than 1957 or 1965. He knows his salvation reaches
back into the very council halls of eternity in the mind and purpose
of a holy God. He knows that. But he knows also
there was a time when God began to deal with him. I don't know,
maybe it was in an Armenian church. Maybe it was under some kind
of preaching that said, quit your meanness and follow Jesus.
You don't want to go to heaven, you want to go to hell. You don't
want to go to hell, you want to go to heaven. And he might have been
disturbed or concerned under that. He knows that at least
he had some concern for God and concern for his eternal whereabouts
and destination, and he began to think. And then one day God
brought him to see who he is, the depths of guilt and filth
and sin. And oh, he abhorred himself.
Like Job, I've heard about God, now I see it. I see Him in the
glory of His grace. I see Him in the glory of His
justice. I see Him in the glory of His
wisdom. I see Him in the glory of His
mercy. I see Him in the glory of Calvary.
I see God. Boy, I remember that time when old Barnard came to Ashland,
and I was a young preacher, and I'd been interested in God for
a long time, but I hadn't seen Him. I'd heard about Him, but
I hadn't seen Him. And I saw the Lord in His glory,
in His glory, the glory of His providence and creation and purpose
and in the glory of His Son. And I began to seek the Lord. And some of you did. It doesn't
matter. I don't want you to tell me when
you made a profession, but I'd like to know this. Who is your
Lord? Which way are you going? What
are your plans? What's the desire of your soul? Is it what Paul said? Oh, that
I may know Him and the power of His resurrection. Then why
are you sidetracked? Why are you sitting off on that
side and over there, dabbling with those daisies, huh? It ain't
got nothing to do with God. Why aren't you on the main line? Why aren't you like the violent? The kingdom of heaven suffered
violence, and the violent take it by force. They're pinching
at the God, that deer out yonder in the wilderness. He hasn't
had a drink of water in two days, and the sun's burning to hell,
and the sand is burning his hooves. And he's thirsty, and his tongue's
hanging out, and he's going for the water. And the water flows here. I believe
the water flows here. If it don't flow here, I don't
know where it flows. If it doesn't flow here, why aren't you looking
for where it does? That's what bothers me. That's
what Paul said, I'm concerned about you. If it doesn't flow
here, I don't see anybody out looking for it. Take me with
you, will you? I want to live in water. I want to drink often as I can. If the people of God aren't here,
why aren't you looking for them? I know that crowd you run with
ain't the people of God. I do know that. That makes me
question your sincerity. I reckon they're here. I do know
where they aren't. I travail, I got one purpose. And ever preach y'all to get
in some other business, that's not his one purpose. Till that
man who hears you preach, and that woman who hears you preach,
and that boy and girl, till Christ be formed in their hearts. Till
they begin to talk like Him, and act like Him, and walk like
Him, and live like Him, and think about Him, and love Him, and
worship Him, and seek Him, and rejoice in Him, and find in Him
everything they need. Jesus Christ is made to me all
I need. I don't need anything else. I
don't need anything else, and really and truly. That's satisfaction, complete
rest, just to enter into his rest. And now the text, one more time,
foreclosed. This is the truth. I know it
and you know it. That salvation is a new birth. It's regeneration. It's a new
creature. It's a resurrection. Isn't that
what the Bible calls it? Now then, if I tell myself and you
that, don't let me be your enemy for telling you the truth. There was a fire in this insane
asylum, July the 27th, 1803 in London, England. Spurgeon told
about it. They didn't treat emotional disturbances
then like they do now. They just put them all up in
a big old prison type thing with bars on the windows The thing
caught fire, and the rescuers ran in to get the people out.
And they weren't people, they didn't have all their minds,
and they were insane. And you know, some of them laughed
at the rescuer. He came in telling them, flee,
flee, flee from the wrath, the judgment that's falling on this
place. And they laughed at him. And
others avoided him. When they saw him coming, they
ran ahead. They aborted him. Troublemaker. Radical. Fanatic. They ran head. Others got mad
at him. Martha didn't want to hear that
foolishness. Just come in here upsetting us. We're getting along
fine now. We're getting along just fine. And you just come
in to upset us. And there's no use upsetting
us. I've gone into churches and I say, I wish you wouldn't upset
us. You've upset my little girl. My little boy, Peter, he's sixteen,
and he was a Christian, and you come along and upset him, and
he don't know whether he's saved. Now, I wish you hadn't come.
I wish you'd have gone on to hell. I wouldn't want to upset
your little boy. And others hid under the bed.
Imagine hiding from the fire under a bed. But see, they didn't
know. And where are you hiding? God's
judgment's coming. God's wrath upon this world of
rebels. God's not going to leave one
stone on top of another one. God's not going to leave one
brick you ever put on top of the other one with that mortar
that's so secure. God'll turn them upside down.
Everything you've ever planned and all those monuments they've
erected to your memory, God's going to burn them to powder
and you're hiding under a bed. Let's seek the Lord. I don't
care what it costs. It doesn't matter what it costs.
It doesn't matter what it costs. Seek the Lord. Don't wait until
you're 75 years old because that's not the time. Now is the day
of salvation. Today is the day of salvation.
Now is the accepted time.