Well, it's good to see y'all
out tonight. Good to have Sharon back from
her college trip. Remember those who requested
prayer, seek the Lord's help for them, especially Dee Parks.
He's been diagnosed, as you know, with stomach cancer and the chemotherapy
hasn't done any good. And so his situation is dire. So continue to remember him in
your prayers and seek the Lord's help for him. start our service tonight with
just one hymn. We'll sing one hymn since there's
just six of us. And let's sing one that's kind of loud and high. Only a sinner saved by grace,
474. Not have I gotten, but what I
received. Grace hath bestowed it, since
I have believed. Boasting excluded, pride I abase. I'm only a sinner, saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story. To God be the glory. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. Once I was foolish and sin ruled
my heart. Causing my footsteps from God
to depart Jesus has found me happy in my case I now am a sinner
saved by grace Only a sinner Saved by grace Only a sinner
Saved by grace This is my story To God be the glory I'm only
a sinner Saved by grace Years unavailing, no merit had I. Mercy had saved me, or else I
must die. Sin had alarmed me, fearing God's
face. But now I'm a sinner, saved by
grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story. To God be the glory. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. ♪ Saved by grace ♪ Suffer a sinner
whose heart overflows ♪ Loving his Savior to tell what he knows
♪ What's more to tell it would I embrace ♪ I'm only a sinner
saved by grace Only a sinner saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story. To God be the glory. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. You have your Bibles turned to
Exodus chapter 6. I'm going to read verses 1 through 13 and
verse 23 or 29 through 30. The verses in between those are
a list of the fathers, the elders of Israel who went to meet with
Pharaoh or who were supposed to go to meet with Pharaoh along
with Moses. And it's just a list of names.
beginning with verse one, then the Lord said to Moses, I tell
you what, let's back up and see what causes the Lord to say this.
Chapter five and verse twenty-two, and Moses returned unto the Lord
and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil and treated this
people? Why is it that thou hast sent
me For since I came to Pharaoh to speak thy name, he hath done
evil to this people, neither hast thou delivered thy people
at all. Then the Lord spake unto Moses,
Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong
hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive
them out of his land. God spake to Moses and said unto
him, I am the Lord. And I appeared to Abraham, and
to Isaac, and to Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by
my name Jehovah was I not known to them. I have also established
my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, and
the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom
the Egyptians kept in bondage, and I remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children
of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under
the burdens of Egypt, and I will rid you of their bondage, and
I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments,
and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you
a God. And ye shall know that I am the
Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens
of the Egyptians. And I will bring you into the
land concerning that which I swear to give to Abraham, and to Isaac,
and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for a heritage. I am the Lord. And Moses spake
so unto the children of Israel. But they hearkened not to Moses
for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage. And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying, Go in, speak unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
that he let the children of Israel go out of this land. And Moses
spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel
have not hearkened unto me. How then shall Pharaoh hear me,
who am of uncircumcised lips? And the Lord spake unto Moses
and to Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel and
to the Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt. in verse twenty eight it says
and it came to pass the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the
land of Egypt that the Lord spake unto Moses saying I am the Lord
speak thou unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt all that I say unto
thee and Moses said before the Lord behold I am a man of uncircumcised
limbs how shall the Pharaoh hearken to me let us pray our father
we come in the blessed name and perfect righteousness of Jesus
Christ the Lord who is our king our elder brother, our closest
friend, our savior, and our substitute. We are thankful for his shed
blood, for that perfect death that he offered unto you, that
you accepted, that satisfied the law and justice concerning
your people. We thank you for the righteousness
that you have made him to be unto his people, that they stand
before you accepted in the beloved, all to the praise of the glory
of your grace. We pray for those who are sick, going through troubles
and trials. We ask, Lord, that you be with
them and watch over them. Strengthen them and turn their
eyes upon Jesus Christ. Cause them to draw unto Him. Help us, Lord, to remember these
folks and call their name out to the Lord. We remember especially
Brother D. Parks as he's suffering with
his cancer. We ask, Lord, that you be with
him and his family. For the others who requested prayer, Lord, we
ask your help for them. Now, Lord, we ask your help for
us tonight as we gather here, as you might be pleased to meet
with us by your spirit, to take the things of Christ and show
them unto us, to reveal your glory to us, to show us who you
are and what we are, to remind us over and over again that we
are nothing and can do nothing. what you have required of all
of your people you have supplied to them and accomplished for
them and we thank you for that. Help us now to worship you we
pray in Christ's name. Amen. Now most of this chapter
is the dialogue between the Lord and Moses and as I said verses
14 through 26 is a list of the heads of the families of Israel,
the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel that were to accompany
Moses to meet Pharaoh and to demand with Moses and Aaron that
the people of Israel be let go and go out into the wilderness.
Now though Moses will bring the Word of God, the people are so
broken down that they did not listen to Moses when he brought
what the Lord said. We saw that in verse nine, for
anguish of spirit and burdens of the Israel of slavery, they
wouldn't hear what Moses said. and what the Lord said to Moses
is an answer to Moses charged to him which we read in chapter
five verse twenty two and twenty three when he charged the Lord
with uh... basically saying why did you
send me you know you told me you were going to deliver these
people and you haven't delivered them how come you send me and
our Lord is answering that he says I'm going to show you I'm
going to show you the Lord as much as saying in this verse
that he's about to exhibit his power his power to Pharaoh and
show him indeed that the words that Moses speaks doesn't come
from anybody other than God Almighty himself. He said, I'm going to
show him. I'm going to deliver him with a stretched out arm.
I'm going to deliver him with justice and with power and redeem
them. And also these words are to assure
Moses that though the events and the manner in which they
are carried out will not necessarily be to Moses' liking as oftentimes
providence is. Moses, like the rest of humanity,
tends to want immediate gratification, and in this case, immediate accomplishment
for God's promise to deliver His people. The last thing He
said to him before the Lord answered him was, ìAnd youíve not delivered
your people. Youíve not delivered anybody.
You said you were going to, but you havenít.î Well, Moses wants
that to happen immediately, but Godís not on our timetable. he
don't keep up with what we want, he does as he pleases in heaven
and earth and all the deep places. This is a result of not hearing
what God says. This is a result of that. Namely
that Pharaoh, when brought the word of God, will not heed. God
said, I'm going to harden his heart, he's not going to hear
you. You go tell him to let my people go, and I'm going to harden
his heart, he's not going to hear you. Because I've got another
plan in this thing. I'm going to raise him up. I'm
going to make him high and I'm going to make him respected.
I'm going to make him feel real strong about himself. Then I'm
going to cast him down to the bottom of the Red Sea. This is
my plan. But Moses couldn't hear that
part. He just heard, I'm going to use you to deliver Israel.
And okay, and now they haven't been delivered. So he's upset
about God's plan. God will harden Pharaoh's heart.
We'll read that several times in this book that he did that
up through chapter 12. Now, the purpose of God according
to Romans 9 is to CAUSE Pharaoh to THINK that he's greater than
God. Who is God that I should OBEY
Him, he said to Moses. and this is part of God's plan
to make him think he's greater than God and make him think that
God can't get this done. He comes with these fellas, these
old men, these Moses and Aaron. Moses now eighty years old, Aaron
just a little younger than him. And he comes with these old leaders
of Israel. They come up with a bunch of
shepherds which they despised. They wouldn't even sit down at
the table and eat with a shepherd. And he said, who, and they said,
you let my people go. He said, who are these people?
I ain't listening. I'm the king of Egypt. I am Pharaoh. I ain't
listening to you. Why should I listen to you? And
the Lord, this is all a part of the plan. The Lord's hardening
his heart against Israel. And God's going to make him feel
great until God meets out the final blow and causes that rebel
lord to actually and willingly desire to be rid of the people
and their God. When it's all over, He wants
them to go. Because you remember this, regardless
of whether you love Christ or not, regardless of whether you're
one of His or you're not, your knee's going to bow. and your
tongue is going to confess that He is Lord to the glory. If you
look over at Exodus chapter 12, after the Lord has done what
He said He was going to do, to live with a strong arm. In Exodus
chapter 12, verse 31, and Pharaoh calls for Moses. Wait a minute,
Moses is the one being visited now. He calls Moses. He calls
for Moses and Aaron by night. Now what has happened? The Lord
has told his people in the first part of chapter 12 to take a
lamb and set it up for 14 days and inspect it. Make sure it
doesn't have any spot or any blemish on it. Each family takes
a lamb and makes sure it doesn't have any spot or blemish. In
14 days they make sure it doesn't have a bad eye or a crooked nose
or anything like that. It's a perfect sacrifice, as
perfect as a sacrifice can be in the natural world. He said,
then you take that lamb and you cut his throat. and you pour
that throat out into the basin, and then you skin that lamb,
and you cook that lamb, and you eat that lamb, and you take the
blood from the basin, and you strike it on the doorpost and
the lintels. You put it on top, over the door, on each side.
And the Lord says, I'm coming through tonight in Egypt to kill
the firstborn at every house. Are the children of Israel living
in Egypt? Yeah. Are there houses in Egypt? Yeah,
there are. He going to get firstborn at
their house? Yes, he is. He killed every firstborn Egyptian
child that night. And when he come to the houses
with the blood on the door, he took that as representative of
his firstborn, the only begotten Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's why he said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. When I see the blood, I'll pass
over you. And he did that. And then Pharaoh
said, OK, I've had enough. I've been, I've lost, I've lost. So he calls Moses, he says, rise
up, rise up and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel,
and go and serve the Lord. And he uses the word Jehovah
here, go and serve Jehovah. as ye have said also take your
flocks and your herds as ye have said and be gone and while you're
at it how about praying for me and bless me also so what the
Lord said that Pharaoh would drive them out he said this to
Moses in our text here back in chapter six Now the thing I want us to consider
tonight is what this dialogue between Moses and God teaches
us. Now we will look at this message that he gave Moses next
week, but tonight I want us to look at this thing, this dialogue
that has been going on since the Lord first told Moses, you're
going into Egypt Because Moses was in Midian at the time. He
was being the shepherd for Jethro, his father-in-law's flock. He
says he'd been out of Egypt for 40 years. He's 80 years old now.
He says, you're going into Egypt and you're going to bring my
children out. You're going to do tell fable. Let my people
go. And of course Moses had a response.
And it wasn't a great response. It was a human response. It was
a response that probably you and I would have had, too. But
what we've seen thus far is that when the Lord has told Moses
what to do and say to the people and to Pharaoh, it has not been
well received by Moses. Moses has been reticent to do
what God has said and has made all manner of excuses for not
doing it. And sadly, that is a mark of
the child of God. that he is both a believer and
plagued with unbelief. He is both flesh and he is spirit. And they struggle all the time.
Moses believes God. I mean he's met God face to face.
God said to Moses, I spoke to him face to face as a friend.
As a friend. So he's met God and God has spoke
to him. He believes God but he's still Like all of us, instead of looking
to the Savior and looking to God, we tend to look back to
ourselves to see if we can get the job done, and we can't. It's
just that simple. Moses' first reaction to the
command of God to speak to Pharaoh was that he was incapable of
doing so. He was not an orator. He said,
Lord, I'm not really good with words. I can't talk really good,
so you probably should send somebody else. You shouldn't send me."
And the Lord said, I made your mouth, and I made your tongue. We'll take care of that. But
he kind of won that argument with God, so God finally said,
well, okay, I'll speak to you. You speak to Aaron. I'll tell
you what to say to Aaron. Aaron, because he can speak,
he'll speak to Pharaoh, and that's the way God set that up. But
his first reaction was, I'm not capable. God is ever long-suffering,
so he made that deal with him and Aaron there. Now Moses' dilemma
is common to man. His apparent excuse of inability
was true. Now he was using it to get out
of the job, but it's true of human beings. Actually, the problem
was he thought that the result or the accomplishment of God's
command relied upon him. and it never does. If God has
commanded you to do something, look to Him to get it done. Because
you're not going to be able to do it. You're not going to be
able to do it. He commanded Moses to go and
deliver Israel. He couldn't do that, and He knew
He couldn't do that. And so He complained His way out of it,
but He didn't get out of the job. God's command. Men think
that God's plan and God's purpose relies on them to accomplish
it, them to bring forth a result. But God has condescended to use
us. We're just tools. We're tools in the master's workshop.
That's all we are. We're nothing but tools. And
for Moses to say, Lord, don't send me because I can't talk.
It would be as if a hammer realized it could not drive a nail, but
assumed that it was up to it to drive a nail, when it was
never designed to drive a nail unless it was in the hand of
a skilled carpenter. The hammer doesn't do the work.
It's a tool. You don't do the work. You're
a tool. Moses is a tool. That's all he
is. He's a tool. He's never designed
to do the work. In this chapter, we saw Moses,
we read of Moses twice, balk at the command of God again,
submitting the excuse of his inability. He said, I'm a man
of uncircumcised lips. That's the only time that phrase
is ever used in scripture. Odd phrase it is. Really has
nothing to do with circumcision at all. What he's saying is I'm
impotent. I'm unable to do this job. He's probably talking about the
possibility of a speech impediment. Maybe he had a stammer or a stutter. I don't know. That's never talked
about as such in scripture. But twice he said, I'm not good
with words. Twice here and twice before at
the other times God spoke to him. But this verbal exchange
between Moses and the Lord reveals a higher truth, a higher truth. Man's ability has never been
a requirement from God. God has never asked you to do
things based on your ability to do it. He never has, because
you ain't got the ability to do it. That's why he says in
Isaiah 2.22, Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils,
for wherein is he to be accounted of? What does that mean? Don't
count on a man who can only hold one breath at a time. That's
your life. You see that? That's our life.
That's why it's called a vapor. Because all we've got that keeps
us from dying is that God gives us another breath. The one that
God's the only one we can hold. And we can't hold another until
we let that one go. We get that ceci from man. Man
is nothing to man. Our Lord, before He talked to
Nicodemus in John chapter 2, turn over there to John chapter
2. John chapter 2, it says in verse
23, it says, Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover
and the feast day, many believed in his name when they saw the
miracles he did. Many believed when they saw the
miracles Christ did. Most people have no problem with
Christ's healing power, with Christ's ability to do wonders
and great and miraculous things. They like that about him. He
never got in any trouble for doing that. He only got in trouble
when He opened up His mouth and talked. When He told people the
truth about who they were and who He was, that's when they
wanted to throw Him off a cliff or kill Him, you see. But they
believed because of the miracles He did. But look, it says, But.
But. What does that mean? Something
opposite of what's just been said is about to be said. But
Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all
men, and he needed not that any should testify of man, for he
knew what was in man." What does the Lord know about us? Ain't
nothing to us. That's what the Lord knows. And
I always found it interesting that the very next verse it says
of Nicodemus, there was a man that came to Jesus by night.
In fact, it seems from scripture that the opposite is true. Men who are weak and frail and
have no ability and exhibit impotence are the very ones that God uses.
That's the kind of people he uses. And they say that about
themselves. They say that about themselves.
What does the Lord say of great, of false teachers in 2 Peter? What does he say? They speak
great swelling words. They're great orators. They can
really get a message across and excite a group of people with
what they say. But what does he say about his
people? He said with stammering lips. and another tongue will
I teach this people. How did he get Isaiah to talk?
After Isaiah saw the Lord in Isaiah chapter 6 high and holy
and his rain filled the temple and smoke filled the temple and
the doorpost shook and he saw the Lord of glory and the Lord
said who shall I send? He said send me boy I've seen
some stuff I've got some stories to tell. and an angel went to
the altar and took the tongs and took a coal off the altar
and went and burnt his mouth, blistered his lips with a stammering
tongue and another, with stammering lips and another tongue and blistering
lips will I teach my people. blistered lips. These are the
kind of people God uses. Who were the fishermen? Who were
the apostles? One was a tax collector. A tax
collector who robbed his own people. He was a Jewish tax collector
named Matthew. He was what they put before sinners
as being the worst people of all. When you see it referred
to in scripture, these always fall side by side, but this word
comes before sinners, because the Jews consider them worse
than sinners. Publicans than sinners. He was
a publican. He collected taxes and took usury
for himself. And the Lord went to that kind
of fellow, despised and hated by the multitude, and said, went
to an old fisherman named Simon Peter and said, follow me. That's
the kind of people he chose. That's who the Lord chooses in
this day. That's who the Lord has always
chosen to save. Always chosen to save. God speaks
with stammering lips. Men of God speak with stammering
lips and lips burned with fire and lack of eloquence. Lack of
eloquence. Look at how Paul describes this
in 1 Corinthians in 1 Corinthians chapter 1. 1 Corinthians, or excuse me, chapter
2. Paul says, And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not
with excellency of speech or wisdom, declaring unto you the
testimony of God, where I determined not to know anything among you
save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in what? Power
and dignity. A weakness and fear and much
trembling. And my speech and my preaching
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power. Why? So your faith would stand
not in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. If God saves
you using a tool like me or some other preacher to preach the
gospel of Jesus Christ, He does it that way so if you're saved
you can only blame God for it. You can't blame the guy that's
standing up here with the Bible because he ain't have nothing
to do with it. Stammering lips and another tongue. the Lord
said in Isaiah chapter 66 verse 1 and 2 he said the world is
mine the earth is my footstool all this belongs to me he said
I created everything you make stuff out of what I created but
there wasn't anything that was made that I didn't make he said
but to this man will I look to he who is of a contrite heart
that's a bruised heart and who trembles at my word That's
who I look to. That's who I look to. The truth
set forth in such language is the assurance that it's not the
man. It's the message. It's not the eloquence of speech,
but the Word of God. Our Lord said, My words, they
are spirit and they are life. Think about that. Somebody on
Facebook the other day said, Tell me what you do without telling
me what your profession is. I just wrote down, I say the
same thing. over and over again, been doing it for 45 years. Because
that's what I do. The Word of God. That's all I got. I don't have
anything else but the Word of God. Simon Peter said, Thou hast
the words of eternal life. Christ said, Thy word is truth.
Look at a few references to that in Scripture. Turn over to the
prophet Jeremiah. Now the prophet Jeremiah in this part we're looking
at is dealing with false teachers and true teachers. Jeremiah chapter
23 and verse 28 and 29. The Lord says, The prophet that
hath a dream. We've got a lot of dreamers in
religion today. I had a vision. The Lord showed
me something. When somebody says that, hold
on to your wallet because they're trying to get into it. That's
the truth. The prophet hath a dream, let him tell his dream. And he
that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. For what
is the chaff to the wheat? Now you know what chaff and wheat
is. Wheat is the kernel. Chaff is the thin layer that
covers the kernel that is cast aside. he said man's dream is
chaff carried away with the wind off the threshing floor my word
that's what makes the bread that's what the wheat is saith the Lord
he said is my not my word like a fire saith the Lord and like
a hammer that breaks a rock to pieces that's what my word is
thy word is truth. Paul told young Timothy in 2
Timothy chapter 4, he said, This is the way you
prove your ministry. He said, I charge thee before
God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and
the dead at his appearing in his kingdom, preach the word. be instant, in season and out
of season. That's when it feels right and
when it don't feel right. When it makes somebody happy
or makes somebody sad. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with
all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust they
shall heed to themselves teachers having itching ears. And they
shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall turn unto
fables. But you Be faithful in preaching the Word of God. Why? Because the Word of God
is something else. Almost every time I preach a
funeral, I say this sometime during the funeral that I preach.
What we have here is someone who is passing off of this world
and into the next. Passing off of this life, they
will be remembered no more after this generation. But there is
a thing that we have here. that will endure forever. It
will never go away. It will be here when I'm gone
because it was here when I got here. It was here when my great-granddaddy
was here. If I have great-great-great-grandchildren
somewhere down the line while I'm long pushing up daisies and
feeding the worms, it will still be here then. And that's the
Word of God. It endureth forever. Hebrews chapter 4 said, verse
12, that the Word of God is quick. and powerful, sharper than a
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and as a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Right now, God's reading
your mail. It's just that simple. And it
says, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight
and notice he talks about the word of God being quick and powerful
and he uses a personal personification of the word as it speaks of the
living word the Lord Jesus Christ neither is anything any creature
that is not manifest in his sight in his sight but all things are
naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom he hath to do
and what's he talking about he's talking about this book and who
it speaks of, and who it testifies of, and that is the Lord Jesus
Christ. You see, it is the weakest vessels,
the most unlikely, the impotent, blood-bought sinners that God
employs to repeat what He has said, and that's what we are,
repeaters. Men do not endure. They come on the scene, they
breathe a numbered amount of breaths and are gone. They are
remembered for a bit by those who knew them. They are soon
forgotten. This very book started out with Joseph dying and all
those who were his cohorts at the time died with him and the
generation passed away. And when that happens, people
forget stuff. Men may shine for a moment, a
brief moment, but soon their light will be snuffed out. They
are a tiny blip on the radar of time, a greasy spot on the
passage of history. They are but voices in the wilderness,
noises in the crowd. But if they speak God's word,
they rehearse with the resplendent, sublime redundancy, that which
endureth forever. Thus saith the Lord. That's what
it's all about. and those words shall not fall
to the ground, but will like a guided missile find its mark
and do the bidding of him of whom the word originated, the
very word of God made flesh and dwelling among us. Paul said
the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, for therein
is the righteousness of God revealed from face to face. God said to
the prophet, cry, cry aloud. And the prophet said, what shall
I cry? All flesh is grass. And as the flower of the field,
it fadeth when the wind bloweth through the spirit bloweth upon
it. But the word of God endureth forever, endureth forever. And you see it's that word that
is preached and the only way to preach the word is to preach
the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's the only way to preach
the word. Christ said, you know the scriptures, you search the
scriptures, for in them you think you find eternal life. And when
he said that, there wasn't nothing but the Old Testament that was
written. The New Testament had not been penned. So he's talking
about Genesis to Malachi. And he said, they testify of
me. And that's why I love the Old Testament, because it's full
of Christ. It's full of Christ. here's what Peter said in first
Peter chapter one you want to know how you're born
again? it ain't walking down in front of some church it ain't
praying through it ain't crying and carrying on how are you born
again? born from above that's what that
means well you know first of all you had nothing to do with
it unless you had something to do with your first birth Did
you counsel with your parents before you were even a zygote
and tell them that you wanted to be born? You didn't exist. Half of you existed in your mama's
womb or her ovaries. The other half in your father's
testes. You wasn't even a whole thing
until they got together and then you were born. You were formed
and born, but you didn't have anything to do with it. Your
mother was the final arbiter in that thing, and even she didn't
control that. When nine months passed around,
some kind of chemical was released in her body, the same thing they
give people to induce labor, and her body began to say, I'm
rejecting this thing I've carried around for nine months in my
womb, and that's what you did, and that's how you were born.
How are you spiritually born? so i choose to be you didn't
choose to be born did you i made a decision did you decide to
be born how you born again verse twenty three chapter one
first being born again not of corruptible seed the word
there is semen not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible what
is that incorruptible seed the word of god which liveth and
abideth for ever, and he quotes from Isaiah 40, for all flesh
is grass, all the glory of man is the flower of grass, the glass
withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away. But the word of
the Lord endureth forever, and this is the word which by the
gospel is preached unto you. It's not the man, it's the message. Father, bless us through understanding,
we pray in Christ's name, amen.