There is in our day a nominal,
accepted Christianity which is approved of most people. But
the pure gospel of God's grace and glory, the pure gospel of
redeeming grace, is still despised and rejected and hated of men. This nominal Christianity, which
is accepted and approved of this generation, is called by the
Apostle Paul another gospel. There is a Jesus. There is a
Jesus of modern interpretation. And the Apostle Paul, in 2 Corinthians
11, 3, calls him another Jesus. But there is a Jesus of modern
interpretation who is accepted by most religious people today
as their Savior. And they sing about him, they
chant in cathedrals about him, they preach about him from pulpits,
but the Christ of God, the Jesus who died on the cross and was
buried and rose again, who was sent of his Father to redeem
people, the Christ of the Bible is as unknown and unrecognized
and rejected as he was by his own nation 1900 years ago. That's so. And there is a spirit
of religion that's abroad today being called by many names, the
Bible and so forth. But Paul called that spirit another
spirit. I hope you'll listen to me today.
Christ as prophet, as teacher, as reformer, Jesus Christ even
as Savior, we'll sing about him and preach about him and write
about him and even accept him, but Jesus Christ As Lord of Lords
and King of Kings and Sovereign Master, men will not tolerate."
He said, you call me Master and Lord and you say, well, for so
I am. Come unto me, he said, and take
my yoke upon you. Call no man Master, one is your
Master, Jesus Christ. Call no man Rabbi, one is your
Lord. Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ
as reformer, as prophet, as good teacher, healer, even as Savior,
men will accept, but they will not bow, they will not submit,
they will not receive Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords.
In John 1, verse 10, it says he was in the world and the world
knew him not. The world knew as Mary's son. The world knew
him as Joseph's offspring, that's what they said. He's not this
Jesus, Joseph and Mary's son. The world knew him to be the
brother of Joseph and Judah. We know his brothers and sisters.
The world knew him as the carpenter. They knew him as a miracle worker.
Nicodemus said no man could do the miracle of Judah except God
be with him. But they did not know him as God. Peter, whom
do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? Well, they say a lot
of good things about you. Some are even saying that you
are Elijah, who has come back from the dead. That's as high
as the Jews could put him. But he said, whom do you say
that I am? And Peter said, that Christ,
the Son of the living God. He was in this world, and the
world did not know. They knew him. They knew him
in the flesh. The carpenter, the Nazarene,
the friend of sinners, Joseph's son, the miracle worker, the
preacher. Is that not how men know him
today? But they did not know him as God. He came unto his
own, and his own received him not. Oh, they would receive him
to ease their pain. They brought to him the sick
and he healed them. They would receive him to lift
the Roman shackles from their ankles and from their arms while
he rode into Jerusalem and they said, let's make him king. They'll receive him to be an
earthly monarch to give them comforts and peace and deliverance
from bondage, they'll accept him to feed their bodies, to
put them on easy street, but they will not bow to him as a
spiritual and sovereign Lord. They received him not. He came
unto his own nation, and they would receive him in all these
other characters. They would receive him as a healer,
as a miracle worker, as a worker of good deeds. They said that.
He said they took up stones to stone him. And he said, now wait
a minute, why are you stoning me? Many good works have I done
among you. For which of these do you stone
me? We don't stone you for good works. We don't mind you working
good works. We stone you because you are
a man and you claim to be God. We won't have you to be God. Is that not a picture of our
day? Oh, let Jesus be what Jesus is,
but he's not God. Let him be a miracle worker.
Let him be a preacher. Let him be a reformer. Let him
be a healer. Let him be a Savior. But he's
not God. He's not Lord. He's not the Sovereign
King. Look at Philippians 2, verse
6. My friends, we may preach We
may preach Jesus Christ who came from God, and we do. He did come from God. He is their
God of their God. He is with God, and he was God. That's verse 6. Look at it. "...who,
being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with
God." And we do preach him as God, the God-man. Sovereign,
eternal God. In verse 7, we may preach how
he came. He made himself of no reputation
and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the
likeness of men. He became a man. God became a
man. Through the virgin's womb, he
came into this world and grew as a child and a man. He had
flesh, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. God was among us. God dwelt among us. Immanuel,
God with us. He thirsted. He was tried and
tested and tempted in all points as we are yet without sin. He
knew what it was to hunger. He knew what it was to feel pain.
He knew what it was to weep. He knew what it was to get dirty
and to wash. He was a man. We may preach Christ
is God. He's pre-existent. And we may
preach, he came in the flesh, born, bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh. We may preach what he did. Look at verse 8. And being found
in habit, fashion, as a man, he humbled himself and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. He even died
on the cross. And we may preach how he died. And what he did in the flesh,
he stretched forth his hands and took the nails into his hands
and his feet and he bled and he died. And it's by his death
that men are saved, that their sins are put away. But, now listen
carefully to me, but a gospel that does not preach where Christ
is now, Where Christ is now, the risen, ascended Lord, is
not the gospel at all. It's part of a gospel. It's half
of a gospel. It is not a gospel that's saved.
Look at verse 9. Wherefore? And this is the climax
of all gospel preaching, of all God-anointed preaching. Wherefore? Yes, he is God. He thought it
not taking upon himself something that wasn't his. He did not try
to take it like Satan did. or like Adam did, but he is God. And he made himself of no reputation
and came into this world in human flesh, and he died on the cross,
that's so. And he was buried, and he rose
again. But, look at the next verse, verse 9, Wherefore God
hath highly exalted him, and given him a name, which is above
every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven everything in heaven, angels, seraphims, cherubims,
in earth, and even under the earth. And that every tongue
in heaven, earth, and under the earth should confess that he's
not a pitiful, helpless, frustrated, defeated, door-knocker, firescape,
doormat. standing outside your heart's
door with a latch on the inside, just begging you to let him in.
No, sir. He's Lord. Sovereign, omnipotent,
infinite, immutable, eternal, unchangeable Lord. That's right. And any gospel being preached
in this day or any other day that does not preach where He
is now, is half a gospel and it will not say. It does not
present Christ in his true character, Christ in his true office, Christ
in his true power. It does not preach Christ in
his true name. That at the name of Jesus, what
is his name? His name is Lord. That's his
name. I'll tell you, I'm greatly concerned
about all the preachers and Sunday school teachers in this day who
constantly almost invariably referred to the Son of God as
Jesus. That was his name of humiliation.
His name is Lord. He said, you call me Master and
Lord and you say well, for so I am. The disciples never called
him Jesus. They called him Lord. Now you'll
read in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John how they named Jesus
said this and Jesus said that and Jesus did this and Jesus
did that. That's when he was in his earthly
pilgrimage. That's when he was on this earth.
And the Holy Spirit is doing the talking there, not the disciples.
And the Holy Spirit can call him Jesus, but you can't. The
disciples always addressed him as Lord. When they went to find
a place for the Lord's table, they said, the Master has need
of this. The Master said this. The Master
said the other. The Lord said this. My Lord said
that. They never called him Jesus to
his face or to anybody else. The Holy Spirit calls him Jesus. The Holy Spirit can do that,
but you can't. It's like calling the Queen of
England by her first name, and that's not even a part of a comparison. He's Lord. Every knee should
bow and every tongue shall confess that he's Lord. Now here are
three things I want us to see. First of all, if we are to preach
the gospel, the whole gospel, the saving gospel, the gospel
of God, we're going to have to preach where Christ is now. And if you're going to savingly
call on the name of the Lord, you're going to have to know
him by name, where he is now. You cannot savingly believe on
Christ if you do not know where he is. And if you do not call
on him in his true character and by his true name, that's
so. And then if we're going to have any hope, any assurance
of hope, we're going to have to know where he is. Now, it's
vital, it's important to preach who he is. He's God, the God-man. It's vital and important to preach
how he came. He came in the flesh. There were
two atoms. The first atom is of the earth,
earthy. The second atom is the Lord from heaven. He came down
here to earth. It's vital and necessary to preach what he did
and why he did it. He died on a cross that God might
be just and justify the ungodly. But you haven't preached the
gospel, not the whole gospel, not the saving gospel, unless
you preach where he is right now. You know why? If Christ be not exalted at God's
right hand, anything you ask me to believe about Christ will
be most difficult for me to believe. If he's not exalted, if he's
not accepted, if he's not enthroned. But, watch this, if Christ is
enthroned, if he is exalted to the right hand of the Father,
in preeminence, in power, if he is exalted in authority to
the right hand of God, anything else about Christ would be easy
to believe. Why not the virgin birth? You
know, I hear people sit around arguing about the virgin birth.
Well, if Christ Jesus, the Lord, is on the throne at the Father's
right hand, that's easy to believe. But if he's just a Reformer,
if he's just a Jewish prophet, if he's just a good man, no,
I don't believe in it either. I don't believe it either. His
sinless life, that's not hard to believe if he's where he is,
if he's at the right hand of the Father, if he's exalted to
the place of preeminence and acceptance at the right hand
of God, equal with God. was sure he had a sinless life,
what other life could God have? The resurrection? Well, that's
nothing to believe. So the whole gospel story, your
gospel sinks or swims on the truth or the falsity of his exaltation. Your whole gospel. If you preach a defeated frustrated
Reformer named Jesus, who is not at God's right hand reigning
as Lord, then I wouldn't preach the virgin birth or the sinless
life or the resurrection either, because you have no right to
believe it. But if God the Father hath highly exalted him and given
him a name which is above every name, everything else about him
that the scriptures record is easy to accept. Watch this. It is by his exaltation
at God's right hand that he is shown to be Lord in Christ. That's right. That's how God
shows that he's Lord in Christ. By the resurrection, he's declared
to be the Son of God. By the exaltation, he's declared
to be Lord. You see that? Declared to be
the Son of God by resurrection. When he is exalted at God's right
hand, he is declared to be Lord. The resurrection declares that
he has power over death. The exaltation declares that
he has power over all things. In his sinless life, we see that
all sin is subject to him. In his resurrection, we see that
death is subject to him. In his exaltation to the right
hand of God, we see that all things are subject to him. That's
what it's saying. That's what it's saying. Turn
to 1 Peter 3.22. Let me read you a verse of scripture
here. 1 Peter 3.22. that this message is different
from what's being preached today. And I know that most preachers
are trying to get folks to feel sorry for poor little Jesus.
He loves you, and he died, and he's done all he can do, and
that's up to you. He wants in your heart, but you won't let
him. He wants to do this, that, and the other, but men won't
let him. And they're trying to get sinners to patronize the
Son of God. and to please let him do something
for you he wants to so badly, so desperately. They're not preaching a Christ
who's enthroned, who has all power and authority, in whom
we live and move and have our being. But I'm contending that
if he's not at God's right hand, if he's not exalted, then he's
not declared to be Lord, and therefore he has no power to
do anything for me. I've got to look to other quarters.
But look at 1 Peter 3, 22. He has gone into heaven. He is on the right hand of God.
Angels, authorities, powers, and brother, that's demon powers,
powers of darkness, powers of light, being made subject unto
him. He's Lord. He's Lord. Turn to Acts, chapter 2. Listen
to Peter's sermon on Pentecost. It's not some pitiful plea for
people to patronize the Son of God. It's a triumphant declaration
of the victorious conqueror being seated in power and authority
at God's right hand. He said in verse 33 of Acts 2,
therefore, Peter's finishing up his message on Pentecost.
Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, And having
received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed
forth this which ye now see and hear. David is not ascended into
the heavens. He said himself, The Lord said
unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy
foes thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of
Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom
ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." His ascension and exaltation did not effect his Lordship. He was already Lord. It declared his Lordship. His
resurrection, now watch this. Let's go back. His sinless life
did not effect his holiness. He was already holy. His sinless
life was a product of his holiness. His resurrection from the dead
did not affect his Sonship, it declared it. He was already the
Son of God. His exaltation, his ascension,
and his being seated at the right hand of the Father did not affect
his Lordship, it declared his Lordship. You see what I'm saying?
It declared his Lordship. It declared his Lordship. God
the Father is showing the universe who this is. God the Father is
declaring, he's designating, he's demonstrating to the universe
who this man is. He's Lord. See, God says, I've
seated him at my right hand. Now you act accordingly. He's
Lord. Let every mouth declare his Lordship. Let every knee bow, God said,
bow to the royal claims of Christ. He didn't say anything about
you accepting Jesus Christ to be your Savior. He says bow and
acknowledge he's Lord. That's what he said. The Bible
doesn't say anything about you letting God into your heart. It says, my son, give me your
heart. That's different. Didn't say
anything about letting Jesus be your personal Savior. It says,
bow down, sinner, in the dust. He, Lord, declare his Lordship. God's already declared it. You
assent to it. You agree to it. You submit to
it. That's right. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. This little pitiful, helpless
Jesus can't do anything for himself, you, me, or anybody else. But
the Lord can. The Lord can. The climax of true
preaching, the climax of true gospel preaching must be here.
Jesus Christ is Lord. I'm going to show you something.
God has exalted him to be Lord. Men rejected him, God accepted
him. Men hated him, God loved him. He said, this is my beloved son.
Men crucified him, God raised him. Men turned their thumbs
down on him, and God made him Lord. Exalted him to be Lord. And God hath delivered into the
hands of Jesus Christ all things. Now let me show you that, and
you turn in your Bible first to Ephesians, chapter 1, verse
22. And when you start feeling sorry
for the Lord Jesus Christ, you read these verses. You know,
when he was going to the cross, a lot of women followed him and
wept and lamented and cried and sobbed and mourned, and he turned,
even in his agony and even in his sorrow and even in his greatest
suffering and even as the blood and spittle ran down his face
and even as his back was lacerated and he was sinking under the
weight of the cross, he did turn and say to those women, don't
weep for me. Don't feel sorry for me. You
weep for yourselves, and you weep for your children.
If you've got any tears to shed, if you've got any pity to express,
the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't need it. He's God. He's Lord. He's seated at the right hand
of God. In Ephesians 1, verse 22, He said in verse 20, let's go
back, "...which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from
the dead, and set him at his right hand in the heavenlies,
far above all principality, and all power, and all might, and
all dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
world, but in that which is to come." You see how high he is?
Preachers running around talking about the devil's on this side,
wrestling for you, and Jesus is on this side. Our Lord is
exalted. He has a name and he's exalted
far above the devil and all principalities and powers and mights and dominion
and every name that's named. And verse 22, And God hath put
all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over
all things in the church, which is his body. He's a sovereign,
indisputable King. And he'll do what he will this
morning, I guarantee you that. with whom he will, when he will.
He's King. All powers under him. All things,
you see? All things. Turn to John 17,
verse 2. This is that blessed high priestly
prayer in the garden after the Passover, before the cross, when
he was at his lowest as far as suffering. When he cried out,
let this cup pass from me, it's going to destroy me. He said
in John 17, verse 2, "...as thou hast given him authority over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou
hast given him." All things put under him, all authority given
to him. Turn to John 5, verse 22. Listen
to this, "...for the Father judgeth no man." but hath committed all judgment
unto the Son. All judgment. Now turn to Luke
10. We are seeing here that God had given all things into Christ's
hands. He had given all authority into
Christ's hands. He had given all judgment into
Christ's hands, and Luke 10.22 says, And all things are delivered
to me of my Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is but the
Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the
Son will reveal him." All revelations have been given to the Son. So we are going to preach the
gospel, the whole gospel, not a part of a gospel, not a little
silly, sentimental, emotional going through the motions of
playing at church, gospel. But if we're going to tell people
the truth, we're going to have to preach who Christ is. We're
going to have to preach how he came into this world, in the
flesh, in the likeness of sinful flesh, made in the likeness of
fallen men. And what he did, he went to the
cross and bore our sins in his body on the tree and died as
a substitute and a sin offering and a sacrifice. And he was buried
and rose again. But if we're going to tell him
the truth, we can't leave it there. If we're going to tell
him the truth, where for? Because of his submission and
subjection and because he carried out all things that Father gave
him to do. God has exalted him and given
him authority. given him power over all things,
over all principalities and all powers and all rulers in heaven,
earth, and hell, hath given him the keys of hell and death, hath
vested all life in him and all rediction in him, and committed
all authority to him, even over the angels and cherubims and
seraphims and heaven and earth and throughout the universe.
And God has committed all judgment to him and all revelation to
him and all preeminence to him. that at his knee, that at his
feet, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess that
he is Lord. A man that doesn't preach, that
doesn't preach the gospel. And that's all there is to it.
You can call it anything you want to, but it's another Jesus.
And if you've got any conception of Jesus Christ in your mind
that does not fill what Scripture says about him, you're calling
on the wrong name. It's another Jesus. If you've got, you say,
I've got a Jesus. I know everybody's got a Jesus.
Everybody's got a God. But we've got to find out from
this book who He is. That's why I turned to Romans,
and this brings me to my second point, Romans 10. Now Romans
10, this brings me to my second point, and this is where your
salvation comes in. It says in Romans 10, 13, For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Now, we're calling for help, mercy, grace, salvation. Upon
whom are you calling? Now, that's the question. If you call on the right one,
you'll get what you ask for. But you can call from now until
the day of death, judgment, and hell upon the wrong Jesus, and
he can't save you. He can't save you. He's not the
Christ of God, he's another Jesus. So I say away with this preaching
of a pitiful, helpless Jesus, who is in exile, watching and
waiting to see what men will do. And let's put back in our
pulpit, let's restore to the preaching and to the pulpit and
to the classroom and the church, let's restore the enthroned Christ,
the royal King, into whose hands the Father had committed All
things, and the control of all things, and all men have been
committed unto his hands. I have all authority, he said,
over all flesh. That's the thing that motivated
the disciples to go preach, as Christ said to them, All authority
is given unto me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore and preach
the gospel. I can do what I say. I've got
all authority. So look at our text, Romans 10,
verse 13, "...whosoever, weak, strong, black, white, young,
old, rich, poor, illiterate, whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved." But how shall they call on him
in whom they have not believed? Do you believe in Christ enthroned,
Christ exalted? Christ ascended, Christ empowered,
Christ with all authority. Is that your Christ? Is that
the one? I had a preacher say to me one time, that's not my
God. I know. That's tough. But it's the God
of the Bible. It's the Christ of the Bible.
You're not saved if you're calling on the wrong Jesus. How shall they call on him of
whom they've not believed? And how shall they believe in
him of whom they've not heard? And how shall they hear? Unless
some preacher tells them the truth. How shall they hear? He led captivity
captive. He ascended to heaven, and he
led captivity captive. He's not weak. He's not powerless. The power of sin is broken, and
Christ has control and authority. The power of Satan is broken,
and Christ is Lord. The curse of the law is removed,
and Christ is King. The power of death is swallowed
up, and Christ is life. The condemnation of guilt is
put away, and Christ is our righteousness. Unless Christ is enthroned, his
death is powerless to save, and his atonement is totally irreverent. A little weak, defeated, helpless,
pitiful Christ of the cradle cannot do anything for anybody. But Christ enthroned, into whose
hands the Father hath given all things, how shall he not with
him freely give us all things? If you are going to have any
hope, turn to John 14. This is what you're going to
have to believe, that Christ is enthroned, if you're going
to have any hope. Do you know why you're so shaky and shifty
and depressed and in despair? It's because your Jesus, whom
you have accepted as your personal Savior, is a weak, helpless,
pitiful idol that cannot help you, cannot
save you. But if you can see the Christ
of God, where he is, he has entered into heaven and taken charge. He has entered into heaven and
staked our claim. He has entered into heaven and
possessed all things. He has entered into heaven and
been enthroned already. Will I enjoy glory? My Lord's
already, already possessed it for me. It's in His power to
give it. It's in His power to keep. He is able to save to the uttermost
them that come to God by Him. He's able because God hath given
into His hands all salvation. He's able to keep me from falling
because God hath given into His hands all power and principality. No man can pluck them out of
my hand. because I've got authority over
all men. No devil can rob me of my jewels because I have all
authority over all principalities and powers and rulers of darkness. Satan can't touch me. The world
can't touch me. Even the throne of heaven can
bring no charges against me. He has all authority. You see
what I'm saying? Everything's been committed to
him and put under him in heaven and earth and hell. Why should
I fear what men can do? If God be for me, who can be
against me? Anything less than that, I'm
going to shake your ground. I'm going to dry shifting sand
anything if Christ is anywhere but there. If he's in submission
to anyone, if he's in any less position, If there's any power
that's equal or above it, then I'm in trouble. But if my representative,
if my surety, if my Savior, if my brother, if my Lord, If the
One who loved me enough to die for me has been exalted to the
highest position in the whole universe of God, and all things
have been committed to Him, invested in Him, and given over to Him
by God the Father Himself, and there's no authority or power
or law or rule over Him, I'm all right. That's all. And I can call on His name and
not fear anything or any power or any judgment. or any sin,
or any death, or any devil, if he's there. But if he's down
here, anything above him, I'm in trouble. John 14, the disciples
were in trouble. They were worried. They were
depressed. They needed help. And our Lord looked at them,
and he gave them their hope and help based on his authority.
He said, You do not let your heart be troubled. You believe
in God. Believe in me. In my Father's house are many
mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to
prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that
where I am there ye may be also." He comforted them with what?
He comforted them with this. I am in charge, and I'm going
to heaven, and I'm going to possess it for you. I'm going to heaven,
and I'm going to make a place for you. I'm going to heaven,
and by my own power, and by my own will, and by my own desire,
I'm going to prepare a place for you, and then I'm coming
back, and I'm going to receive you unto myself, and take you
there, that where I am, there ye may be also. And you can rest
in this, and trust in this, and have confidence in this, that
what I will, I do, Christ said. But I will, I do. I can trust him to put away my
sins because he's able to save to the uttermost. I can preach
with confidence in his authority because he said all authority
is given unto me in heaven and earth. I can approach his throne. Let me tell you something. Turn
to Hebrews 10. Here's something you need to read. These folks
that have Christ in the cradle and Christ on the cross and Christ
everywhere but on the throne, I'm telling you this, look at
Hebrews 10, verse 21. And having a high priest, and
having a high priest over in authority, in charge, over the
house of God, in charge of the house of God, as the Lord of
the house of God, let us draw near. But if he's not there,
you better not come. Might be somebody else on the
throne. It might be somebody else in charge, somebody who
doesn't know Joseph, and Joseph does not come. You just might
tangle with the wrong authority and the wrong power. But if my
Lord is in charge of the house of God, I'm welcome. If my Lord
is in charge of heaven, I'm welcome. If my Lord is in charge of the
holy of holies and already entered in, my brother, then I'm welcome. You better decide who he is.
That little pitiful, helpless Jesus that you got everybody
feeling sorry for, he can't save or flee. But I'll tell you this,
the one who is God, by whom all things were made, who was in
the beginning with God and was God and all things were made
by him, who visited by his own sovereign determination and power
and will and purpose this earth, in the likeness of sinful flesh.
And in order that his father might be righteous and save the
unrighteous, and in order that his father might be just and
save the unjust, he came down here and died the just for the
unjust, and bore our sins, and was buried, and getting the job
done, finishing what he came to do. God raised him from the
dead and declared him to be the Son of God. And he ascended into
heaven, and there the Father enthroned him, and the Father
wherefore exalted him and gave him a name. above every name,
gave him authority and delivered all things into his hands formally
and publicly acknowledging and demonstrating and declaring to
this generation that Jesus Christ is Lord, capital L, capital O,
capital R, capital D, Lord, having all authority over all flesh
and having all things committed into his hand and all judgment
and all revelation, and he'll save whom he will. Now, if you can call on that
name, That's what the leper did when he came down from the mountain.
He fell at his feet and worshiped him. This little helpless pitiful
Jesus doesn't receive worship from his friends. He receives
familiarity. Me and Jesus got a good thing
going. That's not worship. Build me
a mansion next door to Jesus and make sure mine's as big as
his. That's not worship. That's not worship. I'll be a
friend to Jesus. That's not worship. Worship is,
Lord, Lord, I'm getting what I deserve, and you're coming
into a kingdom. Lord, remember me when you come
into your kingdom. That's worship. Lord, the leper
said, if you will. Lord, falling at his feet, worshiping
him. Lord, if you will, you can make
me whole. Lord, said the publican in the
temple, Lord, let thy blood be propitiation for me on the mercy
seat, be reconciled to me, O Lord. That's worship. If thou shalt
call on the name of the Lord, and believe in thine heart God
hath raised him from the dead, if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth Jesus to be Lord, thou shalt be saved. That's what it
says. And I'm sorry this generation's
been thrown a curve. And you say, well, who are you?
Well, I'm nobody. John the Baptist wasn't either.
He said, I'm a voice. And Paul wasn't either. God doesn't
use somebody. He uses nobodies. Every man God ever used was a
nobody. And when he became somebody,
God put him on the shelf. But I do know this. I do know
who saves. Him who has the power to save.
I know who delivers from the clutches of Satan, him who has
all authority over Satan. I know who can keep me, and in
the hollow of his hand, him who has an almighty hand. Better
call on the name of the Lord. Our dear Lord and Master, O that these words might be more
than words, our Lord and our Master, more than doctrine, more
than a creed, or that they might be an experience. Our Lord and
our Master. He was Jesus. He came as Jesus
to save his people from their sins. And having died on that
cross, having gone into the tomb, And having by the power of Almighty
God been raised from the dead, he is exalted, our Father, at
thy right hand, and he's Lord. He's my Lord. I acknowledge him
as my Lord. I believe you raised him from
the dead, yea, and I believe he is also risen and seated at
thy right hand. And I believe all authority and
power is given unto him, and he cannot be Frustrated, defeated,
he is the conqueror. The King of Glory has come in.
The King of Glory.