The Lord Alone Shall Be Exalted

Preachers, as well as members
of the congregation, stand in need of rebuke. Recently, after
a very capable minister of the gospel had preached a sermon,
several people asked me, what was he trying to say? What was the object of his message?
Well, that troubles me when we can stand and preach for a half
hour or 45 minutes and people are left asking, what is he trying
to say? What's the object of his message?
It ought to concern all who attempt to teach or to preach. If we're
not communicating, we're not preaching. We may be saying a
whole lot of things that are so, but if we're not communicating
with men's hearts, we're not preaching. Let us preach so that our congregations
can understand what we're saying. What's the object of our message?
Every message ought to have an object. If it doesn't, it ought
not to be preached. I hope you have no problem understanding
what I'm saying this morning. I don't believe you will. I'm
saying what Isaiah is saying in Isaiah 2, verse 11, "...the
lofty looks of men shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall
be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted." The Lord alone. shall be exalted. I want you
to turn to three separate passages of Scripture. The first one is
Colossians, chapter 1. Colossians 1. Now listen to this.
You turn in your Bible and follow along as I read. Colossians 1,
16. The Lord alone shall be exalted. God will not share his glory.
He is going to be glorified. Whether in my life or in my death,
whether in my success or in my failure, whether in my salvation
or my condemnation, God is going to be glorified. The Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day. Colossians 1.16, For by him were
all things created that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities
or powers, all things were created by him and for him And he's before
all things, and by him all things consist, and he's the head of
the body, the Church, who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. That in all things. Now turn,
if you will, to Philippians 2, verse 8. Let's begin with verse
9, Philippians 2.9. God also 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, and in
earth, and under the earth, and every tongue. should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. All right, Revelation chapter
7, verse 9 through 12. Revelation 7, 9 through 12. After this, I beheld, and lo,
a great multitude. Revelation 7, verse 9. A great multitude which no man
could number. of all nations and kindreds and
people and tongues stood before the throne and before the Lamb,
clothed with white robes and palms in their hands. And they
cried with a loud voice, saying," verse 10, now look at it, "...salvation
to our God, which sitteth upon the throne unto the Lamb. And
all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders,
and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces,
and worshipped God, saying, Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor and power and might." be unto our
God forever and ever. Amen. I wonder if perhaps in our zeal
to miss hell and gain heaven, and we are zealous, the old Israelites,
Paul said they have a zeal for God, And we have a zeal to miss
hell and gain heaven. I don't, as old Dr. Walker used
to say, I don't want to go to hell. In our efforts to determine
what's morally, I started to say right and wrong, but that's
really not our goal too much. It's what is morally permissible. In our contention, and we have
a lot of that today for doctrine, and for the right theology, I
wonder, are we missing the key to godliness? Is that possible? No, not me. Well, you know, the
heart is desperately wicked. It's deceitful. It's desperately
wicked. Who can know it? If a person is deceived, he certainly
doesn't know he's deceived, or he wouldn't be deceived. I wonder
if we're missing the real design of redemption. Are we missing the real foundation
of fellowship with the Living God? Are we missing the key to a real
relationship with the Living God? Are we following the Apostle's
doctrine and missing the Apostle's message? Think about that a moment.
We believe the doctrine of The verbally inspired word of God,
we believe the doctrine of the virgin birth, we believe the
doctrine of substitution, we believe the doctrine of the second
coming, we believe the doctrine of election, we believe the doctrine
of particular addiction. Are we following the Apostle's
doctrine and maybe missing his message? Are we looking at the
letter of the law? The law of God is the rule of
life. Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not
commit adultery, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt
not covet. We know those things should be
obeyed. But are we looking at the letter
of the law and missing the intent of the law altogether? Is that
possible? Are we imitating the methods
of the apostles and missing the spirit of the apostles? Are we serving and worshipping
our idea of God? Well, this is the way I believe
God is. This is what we are taught that
God is. But are we worshipping our idea
of God or are we in touch with the living God? Do we have a
form of Godliness or the power of Godliness? Is our main concern the safety
and security of our own souls, or is our main concern the ultimate
glory of God Almighty? That's the real question. Is
my main concern the safety and security of my soul? We're out
to get people saved. Why? Well, we don't want them
to go to hell. We're out to win souls. Well,
we want them to go to heaven. We don't want the circle to be
unbroken. Will the circle be unbroken by and by? Where's the
glory of God in all this? We want people to come to church,
and we want people to study the Bible. Why? Listen to some scripture, don't
turn to these, just listen to these. Leviticus 10, 3. I will
be sanctified in them that come nigh unto me, and before all
the people I will be glorified, saith the Lord. Isaiah 60, verse
21. Thy people shall all be righteous,
they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the
work of my hands, that I may be glorified, saith the Lord. John 17.1, Father, glorify thy
Son, that thy Son may glorify thee. I have finished the work which
thou hast given me to do, I have glorified thee on the earth. John 11.4, this sickness is not
unto death, it is for the glory of God. John 21, 19, this spake
he signifying by what death Peter should die. No, that's not what
he said. This spake he signifying by what death Peter should glorify
God. 1 Corinthians 10, 31, whether therefore
you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God. God is not going to bless where
God will not be glorified. Now that's so. God is not going
to honor that in which he is not glorified. God's purpose,
his design in redemption, his purpose in creation, his reasons
for sending Christ is that he might be glorified. Man sent me a newspaper clipping
about comedian Jerry Clower, who told a group of Baptist men
in Atlanta this. Now listen to this. This is what
he told this group of Baptist men in Atlanta. These are his
exact words. This is a quote. The basics is
that Jesus says, keep it simple, hell is hot, heaven is wonderful,
Them that knows Jesus is going to miss hell and go to heaven.
That's all there is to it. Well, this being so, Jesus Christ
is nothing in the world to me but a fire escape, if that's
so. If them is the basics, then Jesus
Christ is nothing but a fire escape. That's all he is. He's
something for me to latch on to, to keep from going to hell.
becomes nothing but a fierce force, an impersonal force, whose
judgments are to be avoided, whose providence is to be feared,
whose face is to be shunned. And God Almighty is my enemy.
Jesus Christ is my friend. He's my fire escape. The object
of my life, listen to me, The object of my life is only to
miss hell and go to heaven, if that's so. That's the whole object
of my life. Being here, preaching to you,
walking in righteousness or holiness, studying the Bible, worshiping
God, the whole object of this whole thing is to miss hell and
go to heaven. Hell is hot and heaven is wonderful. And them that knows Jesus is
going to miss hell and go to heaven. And my attitude, my spirit,
my conduct, my means of support, my companions, my concept of
God's law, God's providence, God's glory, all becomes unimportant. It's just to miss hell and go
to heaven. That's all there is to it. And
scriptures like these no longer have any meaning. When Paul prayed
for the church at Galatia and he said, to Christ be formed
in you. I prevail to Christ be formed
in you, in you. Scriptures like these, if any
man be in Christ, he's a new creature. Scriptures like these, he that
loveth not knoweth not God. Is that true? Scriptures like
these, if any man cometh after me, let him deny himself and
take up his cross and follow me. Scriptures like these, love
not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any
man love the world, the love of God is not in him. I question
this easy believism. in which the whole religious
world, it seems to me, has been plunged. I question this easy-believe-ism
which makes salvation only a profession and not an experience. This easy-believe-ism which operates
in a man's mind and has no effect on his heart or his life or his
conduct or his attitude. This easy-believe-ism which obligates
God but doesn't glorify God. Christ Jesus will be Lord of
all, or he won't be Lord at all. That's so. No man knows Jesus
Christ as his Savior, according to the Apostle Paul, who has
not bowed to Christ as his Lord. 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. No man will be clothed in the
righteousness of Christ who has not been stripped of his own
merit. No man will live in God's new
world who has not died to the old world. No man is going to
reign with Christ who has not willingly enthroned Christ already
in his heart. For whether we live, we live
unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord, and
whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord. For to
this end, Christ both died and rose and revived, that he might
be Lord. Not a fire escape, Lord. Not an insurance policy, Lord. Not a deliverer from hell, Lord,
of the living and the dead. He is Lord. And where he's not
Lord, he's not sacred. Our text says this loftiness
of man, the lofty looks of man, the pride of man's heart, the
haughtiness of men's spirit shall be broken, and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day. In that day. Let me talk about
several days here. In the day past, the Lord alone
was exalted. In the eternal past, in that
day, the Lord alone was exalted. Now listen to this. I have no way of knowing anything
about the universe of God before the world was, before the morning
stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy, before
God made the earth and the planets and the sun and the moon. I have
no way of knowing what it was like, but I do know this. I know
the Lord alone was exalted. I know he had no rival government,
or rival power, or rival spirit. I know that every angel worshipped
him, and every creature adored him, and every created thing
did his bidding. But a rival spirit did arise.
You read about it in Isaiah 14. You want to look over there?
In the form of Lucifer, son of the morning, a rival spirit did
arise. But that rival spirit was crushed
and put down and broken. In Isaiah 14 verse 12, How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? How art thou
cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations? For thou
hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt
my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation in the sides of the north, I will
ascend above the heights of the cloud, I will be like the Most
High, yet thou shalt be brought down to hell. to the sides of the pit. In that
day, the Lord alone was exalted. The Lord alone. Every angel worshiped
him. Every creature obeyed him. Every
created thing did his bidding. The Lord was exalted. And when this rival spirit arose,
it was crushed, put down, broken, and cast down to hell. In the Garden of Eden, in that
day, the Lord alone was exalted. He made all things. He said,
let there be light in the earth, in the waters. He said, it's
good. Let there be animals and trees and vegetables and sky
and clouds and all these things. It was good and let us make man
in our own image and he made man and it was good. And our first parents worshipped
none but God. Oh the beauty, oh the happiness,
oh the glory, God was exalted. They counted it their joy and
delight to walk with God and abide in his presence And the
Lord was exalted. But here, too, the voice of rebellion
was heard. And God was disobeyed. And what
was that voice? Ye shall be as God's. Ye shall
be as God's. I wonder if we're preaching about
the wrong things today. And I wonder if we're preaching
too much about doing and too little about being. I wonder if we're talking too
much about outward actions and too little about inward attitude.
Here's where sin started. We're talking too much about
stealing and too little about pride and covetousness. We're talking too much about
getting drunk with wine and too little about being drunk with
pride and ambition. Huh? You shall be as God's. Look where we are now. Look what
happened because of that. God alone was exalted, and then
this horrible evil spirit, this horrible evil attitude, this
ambition, this pride, this haughtiness, this lofty look, reached up filthy
hands and tried to move God off his throne. And look where we
are now, fallen creatures in a world of greed. That's all
we have is greed and hate and sin and rebellion. Where in this
world, where in this world is the Lord alone exalted? Take me to that place, I'd like
to go. Where is that person, where is
that heart in which the Lord alone is exalted? I'd like to
meet him. I'd like to commune with him. Even the churches are striving
to have 700 this morning. Why? What's the reason? The preacher prepares a great
message. Why? He wants to get people to
believe what he believes. Why? There are gods many and
there are lords many, but before this world's history comes to
a close, I promise you this. It's going to be known throughout
the whole universe who God is. The Lord is God. I want you to
read with me, if you will, the prayer of Elijah. on Mount Carmel. Have you read
that prayer? I want you to turn over there.
The prayer of Elijah is in 1 Kings 18, verse 36. Now here is the
prayer that brought the power. Here is the prayer that brought
the fire. Here is the prayer that brought the response of
God. Here is the prayer that brought results. Sixty-three
And he says in verse 36 of 1 Kings 18, and it came to pass at the
time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet
came there and said, Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel,
let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, that
I am thy servant, that I have done all these things at thy
word, Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that
Thou art the Lord God, and that Thou hast turned their heart
back again." Then the fire fell. God will be exalted. This is
the grand design of redemption. Not that you might miss hell
and go to heaven. The grand design of redemption
is that Christ may be glorified. I say, where in this world is
God alone exalted? In the heart and in the will
and in the spirit of the man whom he has broken and brought
to Christ. That's the only place, not in
any government Not in any nation as a whole, not in any denomination
or organization, not in any local assembly, is God alone exalted. Too much flesh, too much hypocrisy,
too many tyrants. But here and there and yonder,
there's a man or a woman or a boy or a girl. who has been broken
at the feet of Christ, who has been stripped, who has been whittled
down, who has been subdued and brought into subjection, who
has been thrown by his own choice and will, because God made him
willing, but he's bowed to Christ. The Lord's exalted there, and
that's salvation. That's salvation. That's so.
I'm telling you the truth. I'm telling you the truth. You
can go out here and you can talk people into believing that Jesus
Christ was born of Mary, and most everybody believes that.
I don't know many folks that don't. Some don't. Most do. And that he lived on this earth
a perfect life and went to a cross and died and was buried and rose
again, most people believe that. I don't know many who don't.
And you promise a fella that when he dies, he'll go to heaven
and he'll miss all that awful fire and brimstone and punishment
and anguish and agony, if he'll just believe that Jesus died
on the cross and buried and was rose again, he'll take you up
on that, that's a pretty good deal. And he'll go right on about
his usual way, and his usual profession, his usual manner,
and his usual conduct, and his usual attitude, and his usual
spirit. And if you make church interesting
enough, he'll join with you. And if you have enough entertainment,
he'll come. And if he doesn't have anything
else to do, he'll worship God. And, uh, uh, he'll be, he'll
live a life you prescribed for him. You can do this, that, and
the other, and you can't do something else. He'll make every effort
possible to keep it, slip once in a while, but, and that's salvation. Well, that's man's salvation,
but that's not God's salvation. That's so. You can believe every
doctrine in this Bible and go to, go to judgment unprepared. It's the enthronement of Christ.
Now you study the Word of God. Christ said, if any man loves
his mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife more than
me, he's not fit to be my disciple. That's the enthronement of Christ.
If any man loves his own life more than me, he's not fit to
be my disciple. Any man that puts his hand to
the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God. Those
scriptures are in God's Word. I died. I glow in the cross by
which the world is crucified unto me, and I'm dead. I'm crucified
to this world. I'm a subject of another king
and another kingdom. I'm the slave of another master.
Whoever you obey, that's whose servant you are. whether of sin
unto death or Christ unto life. That's who you belong to. It's
not who you profess to belong to. Jesus is everybody's Savior,
but somebody's your Lord, and whoever your Lord is, that's
whose servant you are. Now think about that. I'm not
being mean. I'm talking to me. I don't want
to miss Christ. I don't want to go the Calvinistic
road to hell or the Baptistic road to hell or the Fundamentalist
road to hell or the Catholic road to hell or any of the rest
of them. I want to know Christ, don't you? Oh, that I may know
Him and the power of His resurrection. Oh, that I may win Christ and
be found in Him. I'm somebody's servant. Somebody's
my Lord. I know Jesus is my Savior. Somebody's my Lord, and whoever
my Lord is, that's who I'm going to reign with. That's who I'm
going to spend eternity with. I can go around whistling Dixie
about believing in Jesus, but I have somebody's my Lord. Where
he's not Lord, he's not Savior, the Lord alone. And that was
the argument with Lucifer, the Lord alone shall be exalted.
That was the argument with Adam, the Lord alone shall be exalted.
That was the argument with Pharaoh. He said, who is the Lord that
I should obey him? In the Old Testament dispensations,
the Lord every once in a while laid bare his arm and revealed
his power, and he alone was exalted every once in a while. Look at
the, remember the flood? God Almighty looked down, every
imagination of man's heart was, man's what? Heart. That's where
this business goes on. That's where our problem is.
Our problem is not the honky-tonks, our problem is the heart. That's
where our problem is. Our problem is not a wet-and-dry
issue, our problem is the heart. And when these preachers and
action will join me on the gospel, I'll join them on their campaigns.
But I'm not going to get a mop and start mopping the floor while
the faucet is still on. God Almighty looked down and
saw every imagination of the heart was evil continually. And he sent a flood. And brother,
I'll tell you, in that day the Lord alone was exalted. This
whole world was nothing but one great massive wave with a little
fragile ark floating around on it, held by the hand of God.
Oh boy! He was exalted then. Remember
Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the plain? The fire of his
wrath came down and no man escaped, and oh, the silence of that desert
plain that day, the silence, the complete dead silence! Not
a dog was barking, not a bird was singing, not a man was talking.
Nothing but smoke was ascending up to heaven, and a pillar of
salt standing out there between that little mountain and that
city, and they were pretty quiet. God alone was exalted. Remember Egypt? Midnight, God
had spoken, God had spoken, and in their rebellion they hardened
their hearts. Midnight came! And every home
in that great country, from every home, came up a midnight cry
and wail. Oh, my soul, my son's dead, dead. At midnight, God walked through
Egypt, and where God walks, God walks in exaltation and power
and glory. God alone, in that day, in the
incarnation of Christ, God alone was exalted. It was God's will,
it was by God's will that He came. In the fullness of time,
God sent His Son into the world. It was from a virgin's womb that
he came, unaided by human power. It was by his word that the blind
saw, not by human estimates or human means. It was by his word
that the deaf heard, and the lame walked, and the dead was
raised, and the sea was calm. God alone was exalted in that
day. It was by his determinate will
that Jesus Christ was delivered into the hands of sinful men,
and Herod and Pontius Pilate, and the people of the Gentiles,
and the rulers of the Jews rose up to do what their hands determined,
what God's hand determined to be done. The Lord alone was exalted, and
as that Savior was hanging between heaven and earth, bearing our
sins, dying just for the unjust, in order that God might be just
and justify the unjust. As he was hanging there between
heaven and earth, the rocks began to quake, and the graves began
to open. And God Almighty went to veil
in two from top to bottom, and the sun refused to shine, and
God alone was exalted. God was doing what only God can
do, redeeming sinners. Turn to Ephesians
1. I'll tell you something else.
In the conversion of a sinner God alone is exalted. You can
brag about how many souls you've won to Jesus, all you want to,
but you've never won a soul to Jesus. You've never led a soul
to Christ. In the conversion of a sinner,
the Lord alone is exalted. Because it says in Ephesians
1, verse 3 and 4, he blessed us, he chose us. According to
verse 4, he chose us in Christ, he chose us. Verse 5, he predestinated
us. Verse 6, he accepted us. Look
at verse 6, "...to the praise of the glory of his grace." God the Father blessed you, chose
you, predestinated you, and accepted you to the praise of the glory
of his grace. Look at verse 7, he redeemed
us. Verse 9, he made known unto us
the mystery of his will, and it's a mystery. These people
can talk about preaching the gospel so simply that a little
child can understand it, that no son of Adam can understand
the mystery of God's profound gospel of redemption apart from
the Holy Spirit's revelation. No way. You understand it, God
made it known to you. verse 11, in whom we have obtained
an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him
who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will,
verse 12, that we should be to the praise of his glory. Not
that we should miss hell only, but that we should be to the
praise of his glory. And in the Holy Spirit, verse
13, he enables you to hear the gospel, you heard the word of
truth, You were sealed with the Holy Spirit, and God gave you
the Holy Spirit as the earnest, the token, the pledge of that
inheritance until it comes to pass in reality. Until we lay
aside this body of sin, this body of death, until we're just
like Christ, and that verse 14, the last line, was unto the praise
of his glory. In the day of his coming, the
Lord alone will be exalted. I'm telling you this because
it's important. This is the very foundation.
This is the key to godliness. This is the key to a relationship
with God, is his glory. The lost man, the unsaved religionist,
can see everything that you can see about Christ except his glory. He can read in here, just like
you. These are words to him, too. He can see, it says, for
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that
whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting
life. That's put plain. It's not too hard to see. He
can't see the glory. He can't see the glory in the
death of Christ, in the resurrection of Christ, in the intercession
of Christ. He can't see the glory. In the day of his coming, all
men will see his glory, for the heavens shall roll back, and
the voice of the archangel and the trump of God shall sound,
and Christ is coming back. And he's going to reveal himself
in his glory, and then every knee shall bow and every tongue
shall confess in heaven, earth, and hell that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Look back at our text
again, Isaiah 2. Do you understand what I'm saying? Our Lord is making demand. Our Lord is commanding us to
bow to the claims of Christ. Christ has a claim on you. Bow
to the claims of Christ. Submit to Christ Jesus. When
everyone, every human relationship becomes secondary, and your relationship
with Christ becomes first. When your children, your wife,
your friends become secondary, Christ becomes all. When the
clothing of your body, seek ye first the kingdom of God and
his righteousness, and these things will be added. When the
clothing of your body, and the building of a home, and the driving
of a car, and the job, having food and raiment to be
content, what do these verses mean? What do these verses mean? Did
God just throw them in there for the saints? for the more
progressive Christians, for the higher life enthusiasts? Are
these salvation scriptures? Are these God's? Is this God's
people he's talking about? Is this the nation of believers? Whatsoever state I am, therewith
to be content, as much as possible, live at peace with all men. He
that loveth not his brother knoweth not God. Is that true? What we're saying, we've got
this theory that a man believes these doctrines we preach and
this evangelistic stuff we put out, and he goes to heaven. But
there's another group of people that are real religious. They're fanatically, radically
religious, and they try to put in practice these things. In other words, there's the carnal
Christian and the spiritual Christian. God's Word doesn't teach anything
like that. God's Word teaches this, and
the Lord alone shall be exalted. If any man confess not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh, let him be accursed. No man can
call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Spirit. I'm saying this, that
when a man is converted, when a man is saved, When he is born
again, when he's regenerated by the Holy Spirit, when it happens,
how long it takes God to do it, I don't know when Peter was saved,
he was with the Lord three and a half years, and Christ said
to him, when you're converted, strengthen your brethren. I don't know. But I'm just saying
this, can I claim to be one with Christ? in glory, in salvation,
if I'm not one with Christ in principle, in character, in conduct,
in my goal, in my aims, in my life, huh, Kenneth? If everything in this world is
more important to me than the Son of God, than the glory of
God, there's something I just don't believe. God is too great,
too mighty, too holy, too to share in anything like that.
He's just too great. He's just not going to have any
part of it. And that's what troubles me about our religion today.
It troubles me. It troubles me about so many,
many, many, many, many, to whom Christ is not Lord. And I know
the evangelist of today, we've got a health and wealth religion,
we've got Jesus wants to make you well, and Jesus wants to
make you rich, and Jesus wants to make you happy, and all these
little old silly things that the Apostle Paul didn't know
what trouble was till he met the Lord. But he didn't know what glory
was till he met the Lord. He didn't know what peace was
till he met the Lord. He didn't know what rest was
till he met the Lord. He didn't know what life was
until he met the Lord. He had all we got. He had all
this religion. He was steeped in it. He was
bogged down with it. He had all the rules and regulations
and the laws and all these things and the doctrine, but he didn't
have Him. And when he came to know Christ,
look at verse 22 of Isaiah 2, and I'll quit. He says here, whose breath is in his nostrils.
What's that saying? It's saying, cease for man, and
it starts with this man right here, myself. And it goes to
all men, because man is feeble. Man's breath is in his nostrils.
What does that mean? That means he's a feeble, frail,
dying creature. All you've got to do to stop
his existence is stop up his nostrils. That's all. But God is everywhere. There's
no way to stop God. He's going to be here when you're
gone. The greatness, the glory, the
magnificence, the majesty of God. And then we put all our
emphasis on this carcass. It's health, it's wealth, it's
happiness, it's fame, it's glory, it's comfort, it's clothing,
it's all this trash. And its breath may stop. Cecil is in good health. You
may die sitting right there in just a minute. I may drop dead right now, and
let's put my breast and my nostrils. I'll miss a few of these breaths,
and I'm gone! But I'm spending my whole blessed
existence to pacify this mess right here, to keep it going,
Everything is revolved around this carcass of clay. And this
is what I'm saying, we'd better cease from this. We'd better
find out who God is, and where God's going, and what God's doing, and walk in his way. Find out who Christ is, and live
with glory. If we go home this morning and
this carcass eats steak or beans, what difference does Now, what difference does it
make? It's dying. It's a frail, feeble mess of
nothing, dust and ashes. What difference does it make? If I'm the most well-known man
in this town, or I'm the most unknown man in this town, what
difference does it make five minutes after I'm dead? Now, we'd better think about
these things. But it makes a whole lot of difference whether I knew
Christ or not. Well, I knew God. You sit around
arguing about whether you can go to a picture show or not,
that's your business. But I'm telling you, we better find out
who God is. Who is God? The Lord alone shall be exalted,
and man's proud, lofty, haughty look shall be brought down. And
they'll be running around looking for a cave to hide in, and a
hole to crawl in, for the fear of the Lord, the majesty of his
person. Well, the only way I can walk
with God is in Christ. The only way I can know God is in Christ.
The only way I can receive God is to receive Christ. Lord, here
I am. Here I am. Sink or swim, I go
to him. My life, my love, I give to thee,
thy Lamb of God who died for me. Oh, may I ever faithful be,
my master and my God. That's when old Thomas met him,
when he fell at his feet. He said, my Lord and my God. Our Father in heaven, we want
to know thee. We feel so limited. We feel so insufficient for these
things. We're afraid we're playing games.
All of this life is playing games. We don't want our religion to
be a game. Just a part, a phase of our lives. Oh, to know Christ. To be found
in Him. To win Christ. to walk with God
as Enoch walked with God, to be a man after God's own heart
as David was a man after God's own heart, whether in success
or failure, whether in life or death, whether in sickness or
health, whether in fame or persecution, to know that thou art with me.
I am a man of my word, a man of my word.

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