Dragging for Dead Men

I want you to turn now to John
chapter 5, the text which I read a moment ago. I'm going to give you, in sermon number 1 tonight, the
secret of preaching and teaching. And if you can learn this, you
who preach and you who attempt to teach God's Word, if you can
learn this, if you can get a hold of this, it'll be the most important
thing that you've learned in a long, long time. Nobody's going
to remember everything you say. In the first place, you can't
remember everything you said. And they're certainly not going
to be able to. The second thing is this, get hold of one truth. Find out what it is that God
is saying. Find out what it is that the
Master is teaching. One thing he's teaching. He didn't give people a whole
book of systematic theology every time he preached. He dealt with
one thing. He came at it in several different
directions. If you can find out what it is
that God laid on your heart, and if you can participate in
it yourself and learn it yourself and get a hold of it in your
own heart, then ask God to enable you to show it to somebody else.
If it takes you 20 minutes to do it, fine. If it takes you
an hour to do it, that's fine, too. But don't try to teach more
than one thing at a time. It can't be done. Men can't,
they can't contain over one thing, because this is the way the Holy
Spirit ministered. He doesn't straighten out a man's
whole system of theology in one message, or in one week, or in
one month, or in one year. It takes a lifetime. But we can
get a hold of one thing, one thing our Lord is saying right
here in the scripture that I read, and one thing he's You can try to prove depravity
and election and particular redemption affects your call, perseverance
and second coming, all these things. You can get that out
of that. That's not what he's doing. He's showing them one thing.
The great object of our Lord's ministry, the great object of
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is set forth right here.
The great, glorious, grand object of the gospel. is to bring life
to dead sinners. That's what it's all about. He
said, I am come that they might have life. I am come that they
might have life. There are several aspects of
that, but that's the grand object of the gospel. That's the grand
design of redemption. That's the glorious purpose for
which Christ came. He came, he said, I am come that
they might have life. and that they might have it more
abundantly. And you hath be quickened who were dead in trespasses and
sins." John said, we know, we know that this has happened to
us. We pass from death unto life.
That's what it's all about. Our Savior's ministry was not
to restrain the passions of people. I know why he came. Because even
the passions of his own people were not restrained totally.
Our Lord came not to educate men in religious truth, to make
them theologians, orthodox doctrinalists, because even when he was getting
ready to leave his disciples, after three and a half years
of theological training, he says, I've got many things to say,
and you're not able to bear them. I've got many things to say,
and you're not able to bear them. We think we are. We think we
are, but we're not. If they're not able to bear them,
How can we think for a moment that we are? We've got many things,
but you're not able to battle them. You can't understand them.
Howbeit when he, the Holy Spirit, is come, he'll guide you into
all truth. But our Lord came to give spirit
to life, to fallen men, life which they do not possess by
nature. That's why he came. I saw recently
on TV what seemed to me to be a picture of what's going on
today in religion. I sat there as I looked at it,
and I thought more about it after I turned it off. I thought more
about it in the last few days. But I saw a picture, what seems
to me to be a picture, of all these religionists and these
preachers whose sole aim and object is to make their heroes
better citizens, to make their heroes moralists, doctrinalists,
theologians, religious people. a picture of what seems to me
to be revealing of what's going on today. Preachers who've never
learned the true condition of the center, like these physicians
to whom the woman with the issue of blood came, they didn't understand
her disease, therefore they couldn't treat it. And I was sitting watching
TV one night, and on the screen there I saw something that just
revealed to me what's going on today in religious circles. Down on the Ohio River, I don't
even remember where it was, I was just sitting there watching and
listening, and not really listening but watching, and down somewhere
on the Ohio River there were two boats, and they were filled
with men and equipment. And these men were dragging the
river for the body of a dead man. Somebody had fallen off
the bridge, and they saw him going down the stream, and then
they saw him disappear. And they were dragging the river
for his dead body. Oh, they were busy. They had
trucks all along the side. They had red lights flashing. They had floodlights. They had
people everywhere. They had these boats, these men
in their boats with equipment. They had all kind of activity. Activity was just buzzing everywhere.
They were using hooks and lines and talking with megaphones and
all these things, trying to fish up the dead body of a man from
the river. And finally they got him. With
all their activity and their hullabaloo and their hustle and
their zeal and enthusiasm, they got him. They found him. And
they brought him up. And they washed him up, cleaned
him up, put a new suit on him, put him in a casket, and lined
him up with all the other dead folks down at the funeral home.
They did what they set out to do. They were dragging the river
for the dead body They found that dead body, they brought
it ashore, and they put it right beside all the other dead bodies
that they'd collected. And I thought to myself, this
is religion. This is all the preaching and
religion and activity apart from the power and personal visitation
and quickening power of the Holy Spirit. It's fishing dead men
out of the sea of sin. fishing dead men out of the sea
of drunkenness and drugs and profanity and evil, and cleaning
them up, washing them up, laying them side by side in cold, clean
death as members of our churches. Our Lord didn't come to do that. Our Lord came to give men life. He didn't come to fish dead sinners
out of the sea of sin, clean them and line them up side by
side with all the clean, cold corpse that we have today in
churches. He came to give them life, to
make them live. He said in verse 25, "'Verily,
verily, I say unto you, the hour is come, and now is when the
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that
hear shall live.'" Live! And the preacher of the gospel
can never be satisfied. with all of the religious activity
of dragging the sea of sin for dead men. How many dead men did
you find today? I drugged the sea of sin and
I brought forth the body of about 20 dead men this week. He longs to see men live. He knows that only Christ can
give life. You know, you wonder sometimes
Why some of us, I can explain this, you wonder sometimes when
people make professions of religion, why some of us don't get more
excited. You want to know why I don't
get excited too much over people making professions of religion?
This is the reason right here. And I'll tell you this, if they
were down there dragging that sea and they brought a fellow
out and somebody said, he's alive, now I'd get excited. But I can't
get too excited over these dead bodies that they keep bringing
out of the sea of sin. I just can't get excited. I tell you, I've seen so many
dead bodies come out and remain cold and dead and lifeless and
without Christ. I'll tell you what I'd like to
see. I believe I could rejoice if I could see it, and that is
when Ezekiel stood that day and looked over that valley. And
there was all those dead, dry, lifeless bones, and he preached
to them, and the Spirit of God breathed on them. They stood
up, and they manifested some evidence of being alive. They manifested some evidence. When our Lord stood at the grave
of Lazarus, he said, Lazarus, come forth! And Lazarus walked,
and Lazarus talked, and Lazarus breathed, and Lazarus showed
evidence of being alive. This is the thing They drag the
sea of sin and drugs and drunkenness and profanity and immorality
and all these things, they drag the sea and they bring out a
dead body and you look for some evidence of life and you keep
looking and a day and a week and a month and a year and four
or five years pass and you don't see any evidence of life, how
can you rejoice? Oh, a fellow doesn't want to
go to hell, but who does? Fella like to go to heaven, but
who wouldn't? Fella believes in God, but the devil believes
in God, and the tribunal. Fella believes Christ came to
the earth, but everybody else knows that, too. Fella loves
those that love him, but Christ said, what thank have you? Fella
lends to those from whom he hopes to retrieve something in return,
but what thank have you, Christ said. Fella does good to those
who do good to him, but what thank have you? Sinners do the
same. No life there. There's no evidence of life.
Oh, if you could just see somebody who loves his enemies and prays
for those that despitefully use him, blesses those that curse
him, and shows some evidence of the Spirit of Christ and the
mind of Christ and the humility of Christ and the compassion
of Christ and the affection of Christ and of the submission
of Christ, and you could see some evidence, you could maybe
rejoice. But the dead body is in the dead
condition of selfishness. and pride and arrogance and rebellion. He's dead. He's dead. Our Lord didn't come to drag
the sea for dead men. He came to give them life. And
you know what kind of life? Abundant life. That's what he
said. I came that they might have life,
that they might have it more abundant. that they might have it more
abundantly. Do you know what we're doing? We're dragging the
sea of sin for dead men. And we're bringing out these
corpse. And we're washing them. Oh, we're cleaning them up. We're
not taking them dirt and all. We're cleaning them up. We won't
keep our congregation a clean morgue. We're cleaning them up. We're taking away some of their
filthy habits and dirty habits and all these things. Fixing
them up so they'll be acceptable, you know, so that we won't run
a dirty ship, you know. We're cleaning them up real good.
They're clean and cold and dead. We line them up with all the
other courts, and we say, look how many we've got. We've got
a whole lot of them. But could you find some evidence
of life, as God has the Lord given life? Let me point out
four things from this text, not weary you too long, but like
I say, I'm trying to show one thing tonight. Christ didn't
come to drag the seal of sin for dead men. He came to give
life. And if our Lord says, Lazarus,
come forth, Lazarus is going to give some evidence that he
has life. He's going to give some evidence.
And if it's the life of Christ, there will be some evidence of
Christ manifested in that life. That's so. First thing I show you tonight
is in verse 24 and 25. Our Lord said, Verily, verily,
I say unto you. Verse 25, Verily, verily, I say
unto you. The word verily here means surely,
surely, surely, surely. The word verily here means trustworthy. What I'm about to say is trustworthy. It means amen, so be it. As the Amplified Version says,
I assure you, most solemnly, I tell you. Boy, I tell you,
when the Lord says this, something's about to be said of grave importance. Surely, surely, I say unto you,
Most solemnly I tell you, most assure you," he said. Listen to me. Don't you grow
weary of hearing men explain what Christ has said. I get weary
of people, men, appointing themselves God's interpreters. And they
proceed to explain away what Christ said, or humanize what
Christ said. This means this, and this means
that, and this doesn't mean this, and this doesn't mean something
else. Well, you can't miss this one. Christ said, Surely, surely,
I'll say unto you, I'll say it. Can anything be more truthful?
Can anything be more important? Well, I say this to you, I say
this, it's useless to talk about being a disciple of the Lord
Jesus if you're not prepared to receive his word. That's useless. It's useless to talk about being
a believer and talking about being a disciple if you're not
prepared to receive what he says. Bob read tonight in the study,
1 Samuel 1, Tonight I wish you'd read 1 Samuel. He read 1 Samuel
2. I wish you'd read 1 Samuel 3.
Following that, Samuel got to be a little fellow, a young boy. One night he was asleep, and
a voice said, Samuel, Samuel. He didn't know the Lord. That's
what it says in 1 Samuel 3. He didn't know the Lord. He went
running into Eli's room. He woke Eli and said, Here I
am, what do you want?" Eli said, I didn't call you. Samuel went
back to bed and the voice said, Samuel, Samuel. He went running into Eli's room
the second time and said, What do you want? Eli said, I didn't
call you. Go back to bed, third time, same
thing. He came in and said, What do you want? Eli said, Son, the
Lord's calling you. God's calling you. Now if you
hear that voice again, you say this. speak, Lord, thy servant."
Samuel went back to bed, and in a few moments a voice said,
Samuel, and that young boy said, speak, Lord, thy servant. I call on you, I call on myself,
to return to this book and to Camp to return to God's word. You know what, over here in 1
Thessalonians 2, speak, Lord, thy servant heareth. Turn to
1 Thessalonians 2 and listen to what Paul said here in verse
13. In 1 Thessalonians 2.13, he said, For this cause also
thank we God without ceasing, because when you receive the
word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the
word of men. This is not my doctrine. I'm
not trying to persuade you of a doctrine, I'd be a fool to
do that. I'm not trying to convince you of a denominational direction
or dogma, I'd be a fool to do that. Paul said, you didn't receive
the word of God which you heard of us as the word of men, but
as it is in truth, the word of God. which effectually worketh
also in you that believe." This is God's word. Verily I say unto
you. I say this to you. Look at John chapter 3. Listen
to our Lord here in verse 10 and 12 of John chapter 3. Our Lord said, Nicodemus, are
you a master of Israel and you don't know these things? Are
you a Bible scholar, student, student of the Scripture, master
in Israel? You don't know what I'm talking about. Nicodemus,
listen, I say unto you, verily, verily, I say unto you, verse
11, we speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen,
and you receive, not I. Christ said, I'm known by what
I know. I'm known by what I've seen. And this is what he's saying
down here, verily, verily, surely, surely, I assure you, most solemnly
I tell you, I say unto you, and I pray with all my heart that
you will be persuaded of the Holy Spirit to return to the
Scripture. It's not what I think. It's not
what I've always believed. It's not what my dear parents
taught me. My concern and obligation and
responsibility is to see what he says. If he says it, I'm going
to receive it. Speak, Lord, thy servant, give
it. If he doesn't say it, I'm not going to receive it. I don't
care how practical it is, how logical it is, how sensible it
is, I'm not going to do it. Our Lord doesn't always work
logically. or according to the wisdom of
man sensibly. It's so because he says it. He
doesn't say it because it's so. It's so because he says it. If
you don't measure God by what's right, you measure what's right
by God. Now think about that. We don't have a standard of right
and put God down to see if he's Here is God, and we measure everything
in the light of his holiness. Love is not God. God is love. We can't even make an idol out
of love. God is love. I am the truth, Christ said. Somebody said here in this pulpit
not too many months or years ago, they said, Isn't it wonderful
to have a God who loves us? And who cares? What do you do,
design you a God? God is love. Notice the second thing here
in John chapter 5. Verily I say unto you, I say
this, this makes it right. And I don't say it because it's
right, it's right because I say it, Christ says. It's true because
I say it. Here's the measurement of truth. I say unto you, now watch it,
to whom does our Lord speak here? I say to you. You know who he's
talking to? He that heareth my word. That's who he's talking
to. He that heareth my word. And believeth on him that sent
me hath everlasting life. Now, eternal life is not communicated
by drops of water. I can bring you a precious little
baby up here tonight and go through a lot of rigmarole and say some
prescribed words out of a book that I learned in the seminary,
wear my robes and sprinkle some water and talk about the Godmother
and Godfather, and I hope none of you ever participate in any
pagan thing like that. Somebody calls on you to be a
Godfather, you tell them you're not God. and goes through all this motion,
that's heathen idolatry, it's paganism. Eternal life is not
communicated by drops of water. Eternal life is not given through
sacraments. Eternal life is not a reward
for church service. Now listen to him. Eternal life
does not come through good works. Eternal life does not come because
of morality. How does eternal life come? Well,
listen, Christ said, I say unto you, surely, surely, I say unto
you, he that heareth my word. And my brethren, that's not talking
about hearing with these ears. That's talking about hearing
the Word of God with your heart. He that heareth my word hath
life. Here, he said, here, here, and
your soul shall live! In John 10, he said, My sheep
hear my voice, and I give them eternal life. In Romans 10, 17,
he said, Faith cometh by hearing! I wonder how many people have
actually heard his words. Oh, I don't mean they've heard
a sermon, they've heard a preacher, they've heard an evangelist.
I wonder how many of us have actually, in reality, the truth,
have heard his word. But he says, Everybody that heareth
my word hath life. Lazarus heard it and came out
of that tomb. Jairus, his daughter, heard it
and got up and walked. The widow's son, whom they were
taking out to the cemetery, heard him and got up and lived. They heard his Those who come to life first
hear his word. James tells us that the word
of God, of his own will, begat he us through the word of truth. Peter says that we are begotten
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed, which
is the word of God. He that heareth my word. And that's the second thing.
He says, I say to you who hear my word and believe on him that
sent me. Now notice, watch this now, Christ
didn't say, and believeth on me, though he does. But he says
he believes on him that sent me. Abraham believed God, that he
was able to perform all that he promised. Why do I believe
that Jesus Christ is the only Redeemer? Because the Father
said so. Yonder on the Judean hillsides,
as the angels were tending their flocks by night, God sent his
messengers down here, and they said, Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace and goodwill to men. We bring you good tidings
of great joy, which shall be to all people under you as born
this day in the city of David, a Savior, Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto
you, ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in
a manger." When Jesus Christ came to the river Jordan to be
baptized of John, the voice from heaven said, this is my son in
whom I am well pleased. When our Lord was on the Mount
of Transfiguration with Peter, James, and John, the voice from
heaven said, This is my Son, hear ye him. Christ said, The
works that I do, they bear witness of me. The Father hath borne
witness of me. Why do I believe Jesus Christ
is my Savior and my Lord? Because the Father hath said
so. I believe him who sent Christ. Look at verse 23. that all men
should honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He that
honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.
There is no way to believe on the Father apart from the Son.
And there's no way to the Father apart from the Son. And there's
no knowledge of the Father apart from the Son. And there's no
honor to the Father apart from the Son. And there's no blessings
from the hand of the Father apart from the Son. And eternal life
is promised only to those who come through the Son. I'm the
way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by me. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that heareth my word. Not he that heareth the Baptist
doctrine, not he that heareth the evangelist's call, not he
who heareth the soul-winner's plea, not he who heareth the
mother's cry, not he who heareth the father's tears, Not he who
heareth the warning voice of the temperance union, not he
who heareth the cry of a society offended, not he who heareth
the chaplain's plea, but he that heareth my word and believes. Not that Jesus died on the cross,
was buried and rose again only, but believeth on him who purposed
redemption. who predestinated eternal glory,
who chose a people, who made Christ the surety, and who sent
me to fulfill all that he purposed and all that he planned, who
sent me to bear the shame and guilt and sin of a multitude
which no man can number, who sent me to Bethlehem's manger,
to Jordan's river, to Calvary's cross, to Gethsemane's garden,
and two, and who raised me by his own power, and who sent me
on his right hand, for above principalities and powers, that
in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, who believeth on
him that sent me, he has life. Now, if you can get some little
silly walking in an aisle and turning over a new leaf and joining
a church and praying through and getting baptized and uniting
with a denomination, if you can get the hell out of that, I want
to hear from you. But it's not there. It's just not there. Surely, surely, I say unto you,
he that heareth my word If I could get somebody to hear
his word. I don't care what you think,
what did he say. I don't care what seems right,
what seems logical, what doesn't seem right. That don't seem right
to me, I know it. It never will, until God gives
you life. Dead men can't figure things
out. I just don't think it's fair.
I know you don't. wisdom of man's foolishness with
God. But let me ask you this. Did
he say it? Yes, sir, in the Word. Well, that's what it means right
there, just what he said. Have you heard his Word yet? You believed on him that sent
him. I believe on him that sent him. Well, what's the blessing
he promised? Well, let's look at it quickly.
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent
me hath everlasting life." Now, if I've heard his word, and I
believe I have, and I tell you this, now listen to me. You know
what will happen if you ever hear his word? It will become
more important to you than that little wife sitting there on
your left hand. That's right. It'll become more important to
you than that boyfriend or girlfriend that you're willing to sacrifice
everything God's taught you for their approval. It'll mean a
whole lot more than that. It'll come to mean more to you
than that little child that you hold in your arms. I've had people
quit church because I or somebody else offended their children.
That's right. You offend my child, I'll get
mad at you and won't speak to you. Well, go on to hell then.
That's what I feel like saying. That ain't right, is it? If you ever hear his word, it'll
come to mean more to you than that house you live in, than
that property you own, than that job you've got, than those evil
worldly companions you run around with that contaminate you and
take your thoughts away from Christ. If you ever hear his
words, see, I don't mean doctrine, I get tired of doctrine myself.
I don't mean the old Puritans, they wear me out, I'll be honest
with you, they wear me out. Old Dr. Gill, I can start reading
him about 30 minutes later and get real tired. But oh, to hear
his words, hear him speak, oh, the refreshing pleasure of
his are tedious and tasteless, the
hours when Jesus, no longer I see, sweet prospects, sweet birds
and sweet flowers, all lost their sweetness for me. The midsummer
sun shines but dim, the fields strive in vain to look gay, but
when I'm happy in him, December is as pleasant as May." If you
ever hear his words, if you ever believe. You know what he said
he'd do? He said, I'll give you eternal life. How long is that? Well, it will endure as long
as the everlasting covenant. It will endure as long as everlasting
love. It will endure as long as the
everlasting God. It's eternal. And watch this
now. He said, He that heareth my word,
and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and
shall not come into condemnation. I like that. I need that. The
accurate translation is this, cometh not into the judgment,
he that heareth my word, and believeth. It's a faith that
led Moses to forsake Egypt. It's a faith that led Noah to
build an ark. It's a faith that led Abraham
to leave home. It's a faith that brought Abraham
to the mountain to sacrifice his son. That's the kind of faith that
he that believes it will give him life. I'm not talking about
just a little easy believerism that presses down a church aisle
and shakes a preacher's hand and goes on with the same rotten
spirit and rotten attitude and rotten pride. compromise and
all this, that's not it, it's that faith. That faith makes
you different. Eternal life shall not come into
condemnation. You know why? Now watch this. We've been judged in Christ.
That's the reason we're not coming to condemnation. We've already,
listen to me, we've already been judged, condemned, sentenced,
and executed already. Richard Bruno Hoffman can never
be tried again for the kidnapping of Lindbergh's baby. You know
why? He never can be, because he's
already been tried and executed. And that's the reason Paul said,
Who can lay anything to the charge of God's elect? How come? We've already been judged in
Christ, condemned and executed. All right, watch this next line.
He hath life, he shall not come into judgment, he is passed from
death to life. Let me show you something beautiful.
Here is death. That's where we were born, that's
where we are by nature, dead in sin. In the sea of sin, the
curse of the law. Here is life. Death, life. What stands between? Judgment. judgment. Weighing time, measuring time,
searching, godly righteousness to the line, judgment to the
plummet. Because of Christ, we've already passed by the judgment.
That's right. He's passed, I've already passed
by the judgment. I've already entered into life.
I'm already risen and seated with Christ. That's what he said
in his we pass from death to life already. That's what he
says. He says, He that heareth my word,
my word, and believeth on him that sent me hath eternal life,
shall never come into the judgment, but he's already passed the judgment. I've already passed the test. I've already passed the requirement
of the Heavenly Father, I've passed from death to life, I've
graduated. All that needs to take place
now is that in reality in Christ my Lord. All right, the last
thing, and I close. Verses 25, 26, and 27. As the Father hath life in himself,
so hath he given unto the Son to have life in himself, and
hath given him authority. My Lord has authority. My Lord
has authority. You can't get any higher than
his authority. All authority in heaven and earth.
He died that he might be Lord. The Father judges no man, hath
committed all judgment to the Son. He has authority to execute
judgment. Also, what's this now? Because
he is the Son of Man. The Son of God hath authority,
power, to do for me all that he promised, because he is the
Son of Man, because of his allowance with human nature, because of
his being numbered with the transgressors, because of all that he suffered
and all that he did, because where he is, At the right hand
of the Father there is a man, there is a God-man, there is
the man Christ Jesus. And he's able, he has the authority,
he has the power, he has the right to execute all judgment
because he is the Son of Man. That's right, he's the Son of
Man. How come you got so much confidence in Christ because
he is the Son of Man? Now, if he hadn't come down here
one time in my flesh, if he hadn't obeyed the law and died on the
cross, if he hadn't met every requirement, if he hadn't risen
from the tomb, if he hadn't become what I am, I'd question the mercy
of God. But being in Christ, Almighty
God has to do for me what Christ purchased for me, because when
he did it, I did it. When he fulfilled it, I fulfilled
it. And he did it not just as a son of God, he did it as a
man, the Son of Man. I say unto you, I say unto you, he that heareth
my word and believeth on him that sent me, have eternal life,
and shall never come into the judgment, but he's already passed
from death to life." May God give us evidence of this transaction. We pray, Our Father, in the name
of thy Son, who has the power, because of who he is and what
he's done, to give us life. We pray that we may hear him
speak. O God, speak, thy servant hearing. How can I hear unless you speak? How can Lazarus come forth except
Christ give the command? How can we believe except somebody
show us? May thy Holy Spirit reveal unto
us Christ as he was revealed to the Apostle Paul in the day
of his calling. We pray in Christ's sake, for
his sake and glory. Amen.

Dragging for Dead Men

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Dragging for Dead Men

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