O Ye Dry Bones - Hear the Word of the Lord

Now let's go back to Ezekiel
37. There is no question about this. This
scripture is definitely a prophecy of the restoration and the conversion
of the Jews. If you look at verse 11, he tells
us that. Then he said unto me, Son of
man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they
say our bones are dried, our hope is lost, we are cut off
from our parts. Therefore prophesy I say to them,
Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my people Israel, I will open
your graves, cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring
you into the land of Israel. Now, William Romaine, I read
his impressions on this scripture, and he said this has already
been fulfilled, that when God delivered Israel out of the seven
years' captivity and brought them back to their land, that
that was the fulfillment. But Mr. Spurgeon said he did
not believe that was true. He was expecting, in 1864, Spurgeon preached a message from
this scripture, and he said, I predict there will be, once
again, in Jerusalem and Palestine, there will be a native government
of Israel. This was a hundred and some odd
years ago. The State of Israel will one
day be incorporated. The Jews shall return to Palestine,
they will walk upon her mountains, and they will sit under her fig
trees." Well, we've seen that come to pass. As I've gone back
through the years and read these men of God, whom I believe spoke
under the power of the Holy Spirit, and they talked about, once again,
someday there would be an Israel back in the Holy Land, as we
call it, Jerusalem, Palestine. And that has taken place. Spurgeon
went on and said there will also not only be a political, not only a political restoration
of Israel, but there will be, he said one day, there will be
a spiritual restoration of the Jews. They are going to recognize
Christ. They are going to be saved. This
we have not seen yet. But I cannot explain, I can't
explain this Nor can you or anyone else. I think prophecy is going
to be much like Peter at Pentecost when he said, This is that which
was spoken of by the prophet Joel. I think when we see these
things come to pass, that we're going to be able to say, Now,
this is what the Lord said in Daniel. This is what the Lord
said in Ezekiel. This is what the Lord said in
Revelation. This is it. This is the fulfillment.
But hold this place and turn to Romans Chapter 11, just a
minute. I don't know a whole lot about
amillennialism and postmillennialism and premillennialism, and I do
know what they claim, I do know what most of them believe, and
I guess if you were to type me, I don't know whether I wish to
be typed or not, but I'd be a modified historical premillenarian, because
I believe that Christ is going to return and I believe there's
going to be thousand years separating the the resurrections under life
and under death and Christ will reign on this earth on this earth
we're going to see the glory of God on this earth where his
greatest reproach and shame was manifested we're going to see
his greatest glory I believe that but I believe also the Bible
teaches and these are scriptures that are hard to deal with if
you don't believe it that God's going to do something for the
Jews now look at Romans 11 I say, then, hath God cast away his
people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite, of
the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. Now look at verse
12. Now if the fall of them, that is, the Jew, be the riches
of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentile,
how much more their fullness. Well, now, that hasn't been fulfilled
yet, has it? Their fullness? Look at verse 15. If the casting
away of the Jew be the reconciling of the world, what shall the
receiving of them be but life from the dead? We haven't seen
that yet, have we? Look at verse 19. Well, because
of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. He's talking to the Gentiles.
Now, don't be high-minded, but fear, for if God spared not the
natural branches, that's the Jew, take heed that he also spare
not thee. Behold, therefore, the goodness
and severity of God on them that fell, severity for thee, goodness,
if you continue in his goodness, otherwise you'll be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall
be grafted in. God's able to graft them in again.
For if thou wert cut off, cut out of the olive tree which is
wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into the good olive
tree, how much more shall these which be the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree. Now watch this. I would
not, brethren, that you be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should
be wise in your own conceits that blindness, hardness in part,
is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come
in, and so all Israel shall be saved. as it is written, as shall
come out of Zion the deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob." We haven't seen that yet, have we? Well, that's
what Ezekiel 37, the vision of dry bones, seems to indicate,
that there will be a political and a spiritual restoration of
Israel. And then many, many of the writers
interpret Ezekiel 37 as a description of the resurrection. And I couldn't
help but think, some of you men that have been down to the Mexican
mission field, to the Yucatan, that day when we were down there
and they just dug up those bones, down there they don't bury their
dead and leave them in the ground because they can't afford cemetery
lot. So they rent a grave. There may be a hundred people
that eventually be buried in the same hole because after two
years they dig them up. When a person dies in a family
they don't embalm, they put them in a little box and drop them
down in the ground four or five feet and cover them up and over
a period of two years the flesh and everything just rots, disappears. The worms and bugs eat it and
And this, they just dug a hole in the ground and were taking
these bones out when some of us were down there. This woman,
her skull and the black hair was still matted around the skull
and the bone, no flesh, nothing, just a pile of bones. And a fellow
took the white scarf and he piled the bones in the middle of that
scarf and pulled it up around the top and tied it and put it
in a little box with the rest of the family members. But as
I looked at those bones and they come back to my mind now, I hear
this Can these bones live? Can these bones live? Well, our
Lord says they will. He says in John 5, 28, They that
are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God,
and they that hear shall live. Behold, the day cometh when all
the dead shall hear his voice, and they'll live, they'll rise
up. This body which is sown in corruption And that, as you stand
and look at those bones, that's corruption, that's decay. And
if you could just imagine, people have been buried for a hundred
years, nothing but dust, and those that have been buried thousands
of years, there's no telling where all of their particles
are. But God says they'll live, and that which is sown in shame
shall be raised in glory. Yes, they're coming forth. And this is where most preachers
and Bible teachers, I believe, come up missing. They come up
short. It's all right to talk about the political and the spiritual
restoration of Israel. Glory to God. Won't that be wonderful? I rejoice in little Israel. I
don't just have a place in my heart for Israel. You can take
your political beliefs and do what you want to with them, but
I love the Jews. My Lord was a Jew. Abraham, David,
Jacob, Joseph. These men were Jews. And God
is seen fit to send the Savior through the Jewish nation. And
they're particular people. They're peculiar people. They're
God's national people. And someday, I believe, God's
going to reveal Christ to them. He said, blindness in part. But
don't hang around there when you're reading the Scripture.
And then you talk about the resurrection, how beautiful heaven must be.
I dream to search heaven for you. We're going to meet in glory.
All right, wonderful. That's great. But that's not
what I need to be involved in right now. That's not what I
need to be concerned about right now, what's going to be. I need
to be concerned about what is, what's taking place right now,
my relationship with the Savior. And don't ever read any scripture
like this without spending most of your time talking about how
God saves sinners because that's what it's all about. That's what
it's all about. The resurrection, the resurrection
of dead souls to spiritual life. The resurrection of dead sinners
by the power of God, by the grace of God. That's a greater miracle
than the history of going back to Jerusalem, is us coming back
to God from whom we have departed. It's a far greater miracle for
God to take dead sinners and make them live than to take dead
bones and make them live. It costs God more. It costs Him
the blood of His Son. But that's what salvation is.
It's a restoration. It's a resurrection. All right,
let's look at our text. Now, we don't have long, so let's
look at, first of all, He says in chapter 37, verse 1, The hand
of the Lord was upon me and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord. This is a revelation. In the
Spirit of the Lord. The Holy Spirit's in all this.
And he set me down in the midst of a valley which was full of
bones. Now evidently there'd been some kind of battle here,
some kind of campaign. And there'd been a lot of men
and horses, I guess, and there'd been a lot of people killed.
And there was very many of them down there in that valley. Ezekiel,
the Scriptures, the Lord let him go all the way around and
look at them. He carried me round about, caused me to pass them
round about. And behold, there were very many
of them in the open valley. Now watch this. And here's the
key. They were very dry, very dry. Been there a long time. The marrow
was all gone, the moisture was all gone. Now you can throw a
little old dog a bone and he'll chew on it. But did you ever
go down in anybody's, down south they have it a lot. I was somewhere
last week, Nashville, somebody had an old cow skull in the yard. The dog won't bother that. because
there's nothing in those bones. They're very dry. The moisture,
the marrow, everything's gone. That old bone can lay there,
even my dog won't bother it because it's so dry. There's nothing
there. It's like chewing on a rock.
Do you want to know the truth about human nature? Here it is
right here. Here it is right here. Do you
want a true picture of how really dead in trespasses and sins we
are? Well, here it is right here.
very many and very dry. All of the life and moisture
is gone, totally gone. Turn to Romans chapter 10. Here
we are, Romans the 10th chapter. You know Martin Luther said one
time, Martin Luther said, turn to Romans 3, Martin Luther said
one time, if a man could get a full view, a man or a woman
could get a full view of his sinful lost condition, If we
could see ourselves as we really are before God, we can't love,
we can't repent, we can't even fear. We're devoid of spiritual
life, we're devoid of spiritual hunger, we're devoid of desire,
we're devoid of regret. We're without God, without Christ,
without hope, without help. He said if a man could get a
full view of what he is by nature, by birth, he's lost As it really is, he loses sanity. If we could see the condition
we're in by nature, and you don't see it, I don't see it. I think
I see a little of it, I think I'm seeing more of it every day.
But if we could see ourselves, the Ezekiel standing looking
down at this valley, just full of bones, very many. The sun, they've been there so
long the sun's bleached them. They've been there so long that
the sand has drifted up upon them. They've been there so long
that there is nothing, no quality, no moisture, there is nothing
left in them. They're just petrified, dry,
bleached bones. Nothing. Even my dog won't pick
them up. And that's the shape we're in by nature, spiritually. That's the shape we're in, spiritually,
the four gods. In Romans chapter 3 it says,
verse 10, as it is written, there's none righteous, no, not one,
there's none that understandeth. We're so void of an understanding
of God that what we understand is the opposite of God. We're
so void of any understanding of who God is and what God requires
and what God rejoices in. We're so void of understanding
Our thoughts are not his thoughts. He said, as the heavens are higher
above the earth, so are my thoughts higher than yours, and my way
is higher than yours, and there's a way that seems right to you,
and the end is death. The end is destruction, not life,
destruction. Read on. There's none that understandeth,
none that seeketh after God. They're all gone out of the way.
They're together become unprofitable. There's none that doeth good,
no, not one. Now what God is teaching us in
the Spirit here is our true condition. Our true condition. And I tell
you, like we were talking about in our Sunday school class this
morning, this is where we start. If you start wrong, you'll be
wrong all the way. I don't care whether you're a preacher or
a Sunday school teacher, theologian or what you are, if you start
wrong, you're going to be wrong all the way. And this is man's
natural condition. This is the way he comes into
this world. This is the result of Adam's sin, death, judgment,
condemnation, void of God, without hope, without life, without God,
without strength, without beauty, without goodness. We're just
like these bones in the open vat. That's our condition. Denied, if you will, but it's
so. It's so. Christ said, you will
not come to me that you might have life. Dead in trespasses. All right, notice the next question,
now verse 3. Ezekiel 37, and he said to me, son of man, can
these bones live? Can they live? All right, here's some questions.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin? That's what Jeremiah asked. Can the leper change his spots?
Can these bones left, these dry, dead, bleached bones, can they
live again? Can the smell of the sepulchre
issue forth the fragrance of a rose? Can the cursing tongue
Praise the Lord. Can the poison of snakes that's
under our lips be changed to honey and wine? Can destructive
feet walk in paths of holiness? Can selfishness be turned to
humility? Can hatred be turned to love? Can arrogance and pride be turned
to fear? Can a twisted natural, insane,
God-hating mind, be subdued and understand the mysteries of grace?
That's what he's asking right here. Can it be done? Can it be done? All right, what
did the Prophet answer? Now, I know what some preachers
are doing. They're trying to do it themselves. They're trying
to do it themselves. The Prophet of God had better
sense than that. He looked at man's natural condition,
dry, dead, barren bones. And God said, Can they live?
And he answered, Listen, O Lord God, thou knowest. I don't have the power to do
it. I can give you a little book on how to live the Christian
life and sit down and talk to you. talk you into a profession
of faith or religion, get you to join the church. So I can
preach to you a little three-point sermon and give an illustration,
read a poem, and invite you to decide for Jesus. But I can't
give you life. I can't give you life. I can't
regenerate you. I can't give you life. I can't
give you a knowledge of Christ. And you can't do it for yourself.
Any more than a dead man can rise and walk. And I'm saying,
and the Scripture teaches, that no man will move toward God till
God moves towards him any more than these bones can give themselves
life. We're ruined by sin and helpless
to repair the damage. We're shut up. As Ezekiel said,
God's sovereign mercy. Can these bones live? Ezekiel
thoughtfully walked around looking at them. There they are, lifeless,
hopeless. helpless, without strength. Can they live, God says, can
they live? Not can they plant some flowers of doctrine
around them, go where these dead bones are and use them for fertilizer
and plant, they're not even good for fertilizer, just plant some
flowers of doctrine around them or something like that, but can
they live? Can they rise up and walk? Can
they have in them the life of God? Well, he gave the right
answer. He said, Lord, you know. All right, look at verse 4. He
said to me again, O my soul, listen to this. He said to me,
Son of man, preach to them, preach to them, and say to them, now
listen, O ye dry, and he puts the emphasis at dry bones, O
ye dry bones, not O ye sick. wounded creatures. Not, O ye
half-fallen, half-dead, wounded creatures. O ye dry, dead bones,
hear the word of the Lord. Now, brethren, I suppose if a
man wanted some dry, dead bones to live, the last thing in this
world he'd think to do is preach to them. Wouldn't you think so?
Wouldn't you think so? And yet this is God's way. This
is God's commandment. He said preach to them. He didn't
say organize them into a ball team. He said preach to them.
He didn't say organize them into a camp. He didn't say organize
them into a class for discussion and personal analysis. He didn't
say send them to school and teach. He said preach to them. Preach
to them. You know, the Word, the Word
of God. Preach to them the Word of God.
Turn to 1 Corinthians 1.21. Now, I know that preaching is
foolishness to most people. The preaching of the cross is
foolishness. What I'm doing this morning to
most people in this world is foolishness, and they've shown
that. because they've replaced preaching with music in most
churches. I pick up my paper and I read
where they're going to have special services, churches going to have
half a dozen quartets and singers. They've replaced preaching with
music. And in the average church, they've
replaced preaching with organizations. They have all different types
of classes and Sunday schools and organizations and these different
things, you know, they're replacing preaching. They'll have a service,
and they'll read some scripture, and they'll make announcements,
and they'll have specials, and singing, and choir numbers, and
recognizing visitors, and all these things, and by the time
everybody's worn out, the preacher will tag a 15-minute message
on it. They replace preaching. Preaching to the average church
and congregation is foolishness, just like it is to the world.
That's the reason they're replacing preaching. But I'll tell you, God hadn't
replaced it. Our Lord was a preacher. Jesus preached. John the Baptist
was a preacher. All the disciples were preachers.
And 1 Corinthians 1.21 says this, For after that, in the wisdom
of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believed. Preaching. Romans 1.16 says, I'm not ashamed
of the gospel. It's the power of God unto salvation. Now, you witness to your friend,
but let me tell you something, and let me tell it to you plain
as I can. You cannot replace the preaching
of the Word. The preaching of the Word. This
is it. This is what God told him to
do. Preach unto them. Preach unto them. And tell them,
O ye dry bones, hear the what? The Word. Who is the Word of
God? Christ is the Word of God. Hear Christ, ye dry bones. Paul knew what to preach. He
said, I'm determined to know nothing among you save Jesus
Christ and him crucified. Life-giving sermons are those
sermons that are filled with Christ. Christ. Who Christ is. Very God of very
God. What Christ did. Died on the
cross. obeyed the law, represented us,
was buried and rose again, ascended to heaven. Where Christ is? At
the right hand of God interceding. Why Christ did it? That God might
be just and justify you and me. Oh, you dry bones, hear Christ.
Oh, you dry bones, hear the Word of God. Hear the Word of God. All right, let's read on. And
you know something I noticed? I want all of you to listen to
me right here now. I want you to listen to me. Here,
let's get the picture, and then I'm coming to a very special
point here. Here were these dry bones. Very many, very dry. Lifeless, hopeless. That's sinners. That's the condition we're in
by nature, by birth, by practice, by choice. All right, God let
the prophet look at them. He says, can they live? Can they
live? Not can we take them and shellac
them and put them on a board and make a trophy out of them
in our church. Look here, we baptized 500 last
year. We got 500 dead bones all over
here. These are trophies. That's right,
that's exactly what it is. These are our trophies. We shellacked
them, we painted them. We've put the words that they
believe in, total depravity, and they believe in this, and
they believe in election, they believe in premillennial, and they believe
in this, you know, and they're our trophies. We won them to
the Lord, you know. We got them. They're not worth
a nickel, but we won them. Now, he says, can they live?
And the prophets said, Lord, you know, I can't make them live.
They can't make themselves live. You know. All right, he said,
preach to them. What shall I preach? Verse 5
and 6, he tells him what to preach. Thus saith the Lord to these
bones. Huh? You know, I've been looking
at this passage, Bruce, I've been looking at this passage
for years, I've never seen this right here. This is what you
tell them. This is what you tell them. What
do I tell them? God says, you tell them, behold, I will cause
breath to enter into you, and you shall live. God says, preach
to these bones what I'll do. Don't preach to these bones what
they're supposed to do, and what I expect them to do, and what
they ought to do, and what you want them to do. Tell them what
I'm going to do. Look, look at the next verse.
I will lay sinews upon you, I will bring flesh upon you, I will
cover you with skin, I will put breath in you, and you shall
hear, and you shall know that I'm God. I'm the Lord. Boy, I tell you, I came up out
of the chair at my desk when I saw that. I hear preachers
who tell me, now don't talk to sinners about God's sovereignty.
Don't talk to sinners about covenant mercies. Don't talk to sinners
about sovereign grace. Don't preach to sinners particular
redemption. Don't preach to sinners God's
purpose. Tell the sinner, now won't you let God do this? Won't
you let God have his way? Won't you let go and let God
have his way? Won't you give God your heart?
Come on, dry bones, won't you get up and give God your heart?
Dry bones, our church would be so much better off if you'd join.
Oh, dry bones, won't you come and help us glorify Jesus? That's
not what the prophet prayed. That prophet stood there and
said, I will! God said, you shall! That's right. There is not an if or a but or
a condition in that message. You see it? If you don't see
it, it's because you don't want to. There's no free will in that
message. That message is all about what
I'll do, God says. That whole message is about covenant
mercies and covenant purpose and covenant sovereign grace. That's what it is. God said,
I'll cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will, and
you shall. Huh? There it is. I will lay
sinners upon you, and you shall live. I will, and you shall.
I will cover you with skin, and you shall live. I'll put breath
in you, and you know what you're going to come up there knowing?
You're going to come up from there knowing that I did it.
I am the Lord. Huh? You're going to come up
from there knowing that not the church is Lord, not the ordinance
is the Lord, not the pastor is Lord, and not you are your own
master and the captain of your faith and the master of your
soul. You're going to come up from there knowing I did it,
and I am the Lord. That's right. Boy, now that'll
do. I told you I had a week's preaching
right there. That's so. He said, you preach, you tell
those bones. Well, I'll tell them, Lord, you
tell them I'm in the saving business, and I'll do it. I'll do it. And they shall. And then they'll
know that I'm God. So? All right, I like this. Verse
7. So I preached as I was commanded. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Wouldn't
that be refreshing? If ever a preacher in the United
States today would forget entertainment and programs and methods and
numbers and reports and all these little silly arguments with their
members and all these little silly divisions and don't like
the way the piano player plays and don't like the way the song
leader sings, don't like the way so-and-so does a special,
little old petty jealousies and all these problems, and just
stand up and do what God tells us to do, preach his word. Just preach his word. forget
all of our schools and all of our meetings and all of our so-called
plans and everything, and just preach his Word. Wouldn't that
be something? I did what he told me to do.
Ezekiel said, I did what he told me to do. I preached just like
I was commanded. And you know something? And as
I did it, there was a noise. There was a shaking. There was
a stir. Brother, let me tell you something.
I've yet to see it fail. I've yet to see it fail. When
a man dares to preach what God Almighty has done and who he
is, when a man dares to preach the glory of God, who God is,
the Word of God as it is, I've yet to see it fail. There's going
to be a stir. There's going to be a commotion.
There's going to be a shaking. You know what it'll be? The saved
in the congregation will be glad. Oh, they'll be so glad. Their
souls will be fed. They'll go out of there rejoicing.
Our pastor finally got a backbone. Our pastor finally dared to preach
the word. Our pastor finally dared to tell
who God is and what man is. Our pastor praised the Lord.
The man preached the gospel today. But that won't be the only reaction.
The religious will be mad. Who does he think he is? We'll
just get us another preacher. I'm not going to go back there
anymore. I don't have to sit and listen to that stuff. I'll
go somewhere else to church. I'm not having that. No, sir.
There's going to be a stir. And then awakened sinners will
be sad. They'll go out of there mourning
over their sins and crying to God for mercy. And the rest of
the congregation will be confused. They don't understand it. But
there's going to be a shaking. There's going to be a stir. You
cannot preach the Word of God and people be indifferent. They
can go hear you talk about social refinement and civil problems
and the beautiful things, you know, and go out saying, wasn't
that a pretty sermon, just a beautiful sermon. But boy, I tell you,
when you preach as you are commanded who God is and what he does,
there's going to be a stir, shaking. It's going to be a noise. And
look here, and the bones came together. They came together. Look at them. And they came together. It says here, bone to his bone. They came together. You know
what one preacher said? He said, this here is men and
women getting together to hear, to argue, to reason, to inquire
about divine things. And that's good. That's good.
I'd be glad if it would get noised around over this tri-state area
that there's something being said here and folks will come
together to inquire about it, to be concerned about it. Send
people home looking into their books, looking into the Bible.
Send people home to seek the Lord. Send people home to cry
out for mercy. These bones came together. They
came together and there was arguments and discussion and dissension. That's good! Boy, that's better
than the cold death of indifference, isn't it? That's better than that old cold
death of indifference. But watch this last line, though,
in verse 8. And I beheld them, they came
together, skin was on them, but there was no breath in them.
No breath. And this is what I fear is the
condition in most places. I really do. I believe folks
have facts. They have doctrines. They have
religion. They have all of the commotion,
the stir, the noise, the commotion. They have the appearance of life. They have the profession of life.
But they don't have the life. I don't want that. I don't want
you to have it. And that's what's happened in
most religious places. There's been some preaching,
and there's been a stir, and there's been some noise, and
there's argument and dissension. People have doctrines, they have
theology, they have positions on prophecy, they have laws and
rules and regulations, morality. They have social events and social
organizations, and they're going through the motions of religion
just like these bones. They've got flesh and muscles. That's right. And they've got
all the appearance of of life, but he says there's no breath. Now what is breath in the scripture?
The Holy Spirit. There's no life in them. So what's
the next line? Then he said, son of man, there's
two things to this thing of Salvation preaching is preaching and praying. Now, son of man, pray to the
Holy Spirit, pray to the wind, preach to the breath, and say,
O breath of God, breathe on these slain. This fellow believes in
total depravity, this fellow believes in election, Lord, but
he doesn't have life, he doesn't know you. This person believes
in heaven. They believe in heaven. They
believe there's a hell to miss and a heaven to gain. They believe
that Jesus Christ died on the cross. They believe he was buried
and rose again. They believe it's their second
coming. But they don't have life. They don't have life. They haven't
been born again. The life of God is not in their
souls. The life of Christ is not in
their hearts. There's no evidence. There's
no evidence in their attitude. There's no evidence in their
spirit that they have life. You see what I'm saying? This
is religion, and this is the thing that that is the most discouraging
thing to most folks, and I think many of you, is that we talk
about God's sovereignty and we live as if he's not. We talk
about God's purpose and we live as if our attitude is that anxiety
and worry and care, we talk about departing and being with Christ
and then We do our best not to depart. We talk about Christ
is my life, and then we spend twenty-three and a half hours
a day trying to get more income and possessions and materialism. There's something wrong with
that. We talk about the love of Christ
is shattered in our hearts, and yet we don't love people. We
talk about loving Christ, and we don't love whom we haven't
seen. We don't love people whom we
haven't seen. There's something wrong with that. There's something
wrong with that. We talk about we love, we love
to sing about his praise, oh, for a thousand tongues to sing
my great Redeemer's praise. Then the people of God meet to
sing those praises, and we're not there. Oh, if we've got somewhere
else to go, we've got a good reason. But what bothers me is
it looks like that everything in the world would take a back
seat to the Son of God. You know what I think? I'm personally, I don't know
what you think, I'm personally convinced in my heart that the
bones have stirred and been to an extent enlightened and stood
up, but they don't have any life in them. They don't have the
life of God in them. And that's where we need to come
to this place. You talk them in, bring them down the aisle,
just keep bringing them, just keep bringing those dead bones
down the aisle and talking them into a decision, joining the
Church, and teach them doctrine. They go from one to Pelagianism,
to Arminianism, to Calvinism, to Fatalism, to Antinomianism,
and some other ism. But they don't have life. Oh,
Holy Spirit, breathe on these dead bones and give us life. Breathe on me, Holy Spirit. Is
that in here, Don? Holy Spirit, breathe on me.

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