I'd ask you to turn tonight, if you
will, to the book of Matthew, chapter 22,
Matthew chapter 22.
This morning I took a little time to
exhort.
This morning I said that every congregation calling
itself a local assembly of the body of
Christ is split, terribly split.
We are not together.
We are desperately divided.
And we're divided, as I understand it, over
three tremendously important things.
First, we're divided over what Jesus did on
the cross and what he's doing now on
the throne, and why he did it.
We're desperately divided there.
Tonight I'm to speak on the second thing
that divides every congregation, who is Jesus.
Tuesday night we're making a concession to the
labor day and are not having services tomorrow
evening.
Tuesday night we bring the third thing about
which every congregation is desperately divided.
What does it mean to be saved?
The cheapest word in the English language now
is the word saved.
It ought to be a precious word.
I've never, as I said this morning, ministered
to a Bible Presbyterian congregation before.
Most of my ministry, of course, except for
union meetings, has been most of it among
people called Baptists.
But after preaching to you once, I see
you're akin to us.
You've got a lot of Sunday morning Christians.
We've got them down our way.
Gipsy Smith said that if the Lord didn't
come for his people between the hours of
11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday morning,
he's going to have a hard time finding
them.
But we all suffer this.
It's not because the people are bad.
It's just that they don't know who Jesus
is.
Their conception of Jesus is utterly different from
the Bible portrait of him.
And then they don't know what it means
to be saved.
They think that it's a fire escape from
hell.
They do not know that the last word
of my Lord is not, I save, but
I claim.
And anybody that's not head over heels involved
in the redemptive program of Jesus Christ is
not saved.
And that takes care of nearly everybody in
our Baptist ranks and a whole lot of
you Presbyterians.
I'm not happy about that.
But so help me God when I get
a chance, I do face people with that
truth.
I don't ask them to believe it.
Just ask them to hear me.
What does it mean to be saved?
Tuesday night, I hope you can hear me.
It's good to see friends and we made
an attempt campaign.
It's mostly the people hurt.
The camp felt the pain, but we had
some friends.
I have planned to have two weeks of
rest.
I got a week and a half and
I feel mighty good.
And I looked in on a little of
the show they had in Chicago.
And I saw how the Democrats are divided.
Didn't get to control the Republican convention.
They said they got together.
But I'm not interested in their divisions.
I'm not interested in the thousand things that
divide us.
I'm not interested on your view on the
last things.
I refuse to fight you about it.
Of course, I'm right and you're wrong.
But I'm going to love you anyhow.
I'm not interested in the thousand things.
Down our way, a real Christian woman wouldn't
be seen in shorts.
Up here, the finest Christian women wear them.
So I guess I'm not going to preach
on that.
Down our way, a lot of the finest
Christians I know use tobacco.
Up here, that's the unpardonable sin.
But down our way, a real Christian wouldn't
be seen 50 miles of a mixed bathing
party.
Up here, you all put on a handkerchief
and go in.
So we're all divided.
But I'm not going to give my ministry
going up and down the land trying to
face those divisions because they do not amount
to hill of beans when we call your
attention to the deep divisions that have hamstrung
the professing Church of Jesus Christ and are
causing deep thinkers to say not only that
churches as they are now will not survive,
but they ought not to.
And I agree with them.
Unless the God Almighty comes to the rescue
of a congregation like yours and does something
for you and in you and through you
that only he can do, I don't know
whether he'll be that merciful or not.
He may let you just go on being
nice little orthodox people and let the world
go to hell and most of you join
them.
But wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord
would intervene and he'd rock us from bottom
to top and he would reveal these deep
divisions over the Christ of the cross and
the throne and who he really is.
And surely we wouldn't be much interested in
what he did on a cross and what
he's doing on a throne unless we were
deeply interested in who he is.
For what he did is no good unless
he is the person the Bible says he
is.
When we remember that the scriptures never divide
the person and work of Christ.
Fundamentalists do.
Baptists do.
Bible Presbyterians do.
You go on to hell most of you
trusting the blood of Christ.
That wouldn't save a fleet.
It's the Christ of the blood that you
need to be vitally joined to.
I wish we'd believe that.
Baptists don't.
We fill our churches full of folks trusting
a fact.
But they've never been united to the living
Lord who is the Lord of life.
That's what saving faith does.
And I said oh let's say this.
If you use the message you've used in
the past we won't get to first base
here.
These are different times.
And you know everybody in Westchester's done got
converted and they don't need to hear the
word or be around the Lord.
They're all fishing somewhere and they're not much
interested in the fact that we're having evangelistic
services here.
Just an invitation won't do much good.
And you're going to have to strike out
or go after it harder than you ever
have.
Isn't that right?
I think that's so.
Do your dead level best and we'll thank
God for the result.
Who is Jesus?
In the 22nd chapter of the book of
Matthew it's interesting.
The Lord's dealing with his enemies.
The fundamentalists, they were the Sadducees.
They didn't even believe in the resurrection.
The modernists, they were the Pharisees.
They were the highest type religious people on
the topside of God's earth.
When the Lord tabernacled here in the days
of his flesh.
And the Lord, he wasn't having trouble with
one of them, he was having trouble with
the other.
And sometimes they'd make up their differences and
join hands and try to get him in
a corner.
I'll take the time to go into it,
but here in chapter 22, for instance, you'll
read that in verse 15, then went the
Pharisees.
They were the modernists of their day.
These modernists, they're not new, they're as old
as the Pharisees.
Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how
they might entangle him, that's the Lord Jesus,
in his talk.
And then in verse 23, the fundamentalists of
the day, they decided they'd have a crack
at the Lord Jesus.
And the scriptures say in verse 23, the
same day came to him the Sadducees, which
say that there is no resurrection.
They were fundamentalists.
The Old Testament does not plainly teach a
resurrection.
And these Pharisees, they believe the Bible word
for word, like you brethren do, but that's
no good.
That's literalism and legalism.
And these Sadducees were the fundamentalists.
There's this fellow Jesus, talking about a resurrection,
they said not a word of truth in
it.
And they came and they decided they'd hymn
the Lord Jesus Christ up.
And then in verse 34, when the Pharisees
heard that he'd put the Sadducees to silence,
they were gathered together.
And they said, well, he's not going to
fix us like he did the Sadducees.
And they asked him through one of their
members, a scribe, a lawyer.
And so in verse 41, it says while
the Pharisees were gathered together trying to entangle
him with their questions, he did as he
always did.
Instead of answering a question designed to entangle
him, he always asked one.
And he asked a tremendously important question here,
and we'll read it.
Verse 41, while the Pharisees were gathered together,
Jesus asked them.
They'd been asking him, so he asked them.
And he said, what?
Think ye of Christ.
You've been asking me about the greatest commandment
and how many times shall I get married
and whether you ought to pay your taxes
to Caesar or not, and so forth.
You read that chapter.
He said, I've got a little question for
you.
What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he?
Now that's a whole lot more important question
than whether you ought to render tribute to
Caesar or not.
They tried to him him up there, which
is the greatest commandment, or how many times
shall a fellow get married, if he had
six or seven, how many of them, in
the time of the resurrection, and so forth.
What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he?
And they say unto him, why, he's the
son of David.
And he saith unto them, how then doth
David in spirit call him Lord?
Singing, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou on my right hand, till I make
thine enemies thy footstool.
And then the Lord said, if David then
call him Lord, how is he his son?
And no man was able to answer him
a word, neither dost any man from that
day forth ask him any more questions.
Would you turn, if you will, please, to
the gospel of John, at chapter one.
Our subject tonight is whose son is Jesus?
Is he just a man?
He was a man.
Is that all?
Whose son is Jesus?
Who is Jesus?
If David calls him Lord, how can he
be his son, simply?
And here in the description of the Holy
Spirit, in chapter one of John's gospel, verse
six says, there was a man sent from
God whose name was John.
The same man came for a witness, to
bear witness of the life that all through
him might believe.
Now, he was not that light, but was
sent to bear witness of that light that
was the true light, which lighted every man
that cometh into the world.
The world can never be the same.
No man can ever be the same.
No man has any excuse since Jesus Christ
came to light the pathway for every man.
And this one, which lighted every man that
cometh into the world, of whom John the
Baptist was sent to bear witness of that
true light.
He was in the world.
And the world was made by him.
And the world knew him not.
He came and tabernacled here in the flesh
for some thirty-three years and most folks
never knew that God was in the flesh
reconciling this world to himself.
But that is all of it.
Not only did the world not know him,
not recognize him, but he came into his
own, his own nation, the Jewish elect covenant
nation.
And his own, and there's a play on
words, his own household, his brothers and sisters
in the flesh, half-brothers, they received him
not, but to as many as received him.
You see, he was the thorn in the
flesh.
Doesn't say as to men as received it
not.
That's what they call salvation.
But says him.
The gospel is Christ.
Not his death, not his resurrection, not his
perfect sinless life, not his ascension to the
throne, not his present reign.
But the gospel is the Christ who was
virgin born, the Christ who lived a sinless
life, the Christ who was crucified on a
cross, the Christ who was raised from the
dead, the Christ whom God exalted and put
on the throne, the Christ who's reigning now
till all his enemies have made his footstool,
the Christ who's coming back to bring this
world to judgment, the Christ.
And the gospel is Christ.
And there's never been any controversy about an
if that Christ did.
It's a him.
They didn't refuse to receive a gift or
an accomplishment.
They received him not.
But to his men is received him.
You see, this world's full of nice people.
They've received salvation, but they still in rebellion
against him.
And that kind of salvation's not worth a
dime.
But to his men is received him.
He's the thorn in the flesh.
He's the one that Luke will tell us
is set for the rise and the fall
of many.
But to his men is received him.
To them gave he the right to become
the children of God.
Your King James says the sons, but that's
clearly wrong.
The children of God, even to them that
believe on his name.
Now here's proposition that I invite your attention
to.
Everybody believes something about Jesus.
The Mohammedans will tell you that he's as
great a prophet as Mohammed.
The liberals, the modernists of our day say
he's the highest product of mankind that's ever
graced this earth.
That he had more of God in him
than any human being that ever lived.
The fundamentalists say that he was here and
he died and he's still dead.
The liberals make much of his passion and
deny his cross.
We Baptists call him savior but rebel against
his rule.
It's not that men do not believe some
things about Jesus as to who he is.
It's that their faith is defective.
Their belief won't get the job done.
You do not face that in your witnesses.
You go out and try to get somebody
to take Jesus, honey, they done taken him
a dozen times.
And it hadn't transformed their life because the
Jesus they accepted and the Jesus of the
Bible are two different people.
You try to get somebody to believe in
Jesus, they already do.
They believe.
They believe something about him and they're perfectly
satisfied with their relation or lack of it
with Jesus Christ.
You go to the hospital and find anybody
who won't talk to you about the good
Lord.
You go to the jails, everybody in jail
a great believer in Jesus.
And all the people in our churches have
some sort of faith, some sort of belief
translated into action, which is faith.
They've committed themselves some way or another to
this one called Jesus.
Mr. Moody, when he lay dying, did it
rightly when he said all he'd had to
do was to go up and down this
country where people read their Bibles and people
knew something about biblical truth then in the
church and out.
And he said all I had to do
was go up and down the land and
exhort men to believe in Jesus.
But the preachers who follow me, I wish
they'd listen to him, they didn't.
The preachers who follow me will be foolish
to exhort anyone to believe in Jesus for
their first task will be to fight through
the battle of who he is.
That's the issue of this hour.
Who is he?
Who is Jesus Christ?
I make the sad statement and I've spent
my life saying it and I believe it
whether it's so or not and I'll live
by it and die by it and take
abuse if I have to and be exiled
if that's the cost.
I face that.
This generation of people in churches and out
are total strangers to the Jesus of the
Bible.
For the only Jesus that we have any
record of at all is the living Lord
who is Lord of life and that's where
the rebellion comes in.
He's not only alive but he's the absolute
Lord of life and unless he controls your
salt life and your whole life you are
a stranger to faith and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
The biggest question you'll ever face is who
is Jesus?
Who is Jesus?
I love that name Brother Bob that is
given to my Lord at his conception.
Thou shall call his name Jesus for he
shall save his people from their sins.
God Emmanuel Jehovah Joshua God our Savior Who
is this Emmanuel whose name shall we call
Jesus because he's God with us given a
task to save his people not in but
if I owe him from their sins.
Well he was born of a virgin didn't
have a human father he lived a life
apart from sin he was crucified on a
Roman gibbet outside the holy city of Jerusalem
he is buried in another man's grave he
is swaddled in another man's clothing perfumed as
body was by spices somebody else furnished he
was raised by almighty God he was enthroned
at the right hand of the majesty on
high and there he said he must stay
and he must reign till every authority everything
in the universe has been brought into subjection
to him that's who this Jesus is and
salvation we're going to try to find out
Tuesday night is not believing these things but
being vitally joined in saving faith to this
Jesus to where he's the vine and you're
the branch to where you can sing he's
the lily of the valley he's the bright
and morning star he's the fairest of ten
thousand everybody ought to know who Jesus is
to where he's the lover of your soul
to where you can read the book of
Solomon and make it yours oh where is
my beloved where can I find him to
where you can read the deepest spiritual men
of the book of Psalms early in the
morning will I seek thee my soul thirsteth
for thee the living God that's the language
of somebody who's been married to the living
Lord and they're not about to get a
divorce or become adulterers and friends of this
world system that did him to death cause
they found him as the lover of their
soul in the book of Matthew chapter 16
my Lord always anxious that folks that know
whom they were talking to and with whom
they were dealing he said to his disciples
what are folks saying about me whom do
men say that I am and Peter always
spoke up you know and he said well
it's in you folks are talking about you
and they say that you, some of them
say you Isaiah and some say you Jeremiah
and some Elijah and some they don't know
just exactly they can't pinpoint it but they
say you are you are perfect now that's
as high as any human being can speak
of Jesus Christ apart apart from God the
Holy Spirit revealing in and to you as
he did the apostle Paul who Jesus is
that's as high as you can go and
that's that's as high as the average church
member has ever gone he's a great prophet
said some mighty fine things this world would
be so much better off if we pay
some attention to the golden rule the great
teachings of this man Jesus but man cannot
the scriptures say by searching find God and
so the Lord Jesus Christ said well since
that's what the people are saying that's as
much as they can say no man can
call Jesus Lord except by the Spirit 1
Corinthians 12 and 3, impossible whom do ye
say that I the son of man am
the Lord said and Peter said thou art
the Messiah Christ means Messiah the anointed one
the sent one to Israel thou art the
Messiah the Christ the son of the living
God that's the question he asked the Pharisees
over there whose son is this Christ they
said he's David's son well he said how
come David calls him Lord if that's all
there is to it and now he asked
the disciples since men say I'm just a
prophet that's as high as they can go
what do you say about it and they
said thou art the Messiah the son of
the living God and the Lord said hath
they art thou Simon son of John for
flesh and blood hath not revealed the son
to thee but thy father which is in
heaven you see when we got to telling
men that they got saved by deciding for
Christ we became butchers of souls for men
decision for Christ not worth a dime it's
God's revelation of Christ to a man that's
salvation that's salvation my Lord said you disciples
didn't find out who I am by going
to school you found out who I am
by God revealing me to you and that's
the way people get saved now I'll fight
you about that I'll fight you about that
I'm going to look in the face and
tell you you ought to cut out this
butchering of souls I'm telling you that a
man Christ Jesus must be made real to
the inmost being of a human being that's
what salvation is that's what my Lord that's
how he said these disciples found out who
he is I would if I could and
this is not pious preaching I've been in
it too long for that foolishness I have
many more layers left if the Lord tarries
but under God if I knew how that
you stomp on my body if you'd throw
that little old decision of yours away and
if you'd start the search see if God
would make Jesus Christ and all his glory
real to you until you could sing the
old songs of the cross they wanted to
cross when my Savior died see that you
could sing majestic sweetness sitting there until these
things would not be something to argue about
but something to worship and adore him until
the one big real thing in your experience
is that God Almighty has taken the scales
off your eyes as you sought him taken
the wax out of your ears and made
Jesus Christ the enthroned Christ who sits on
a throne and waited through a pool of
his own life blood to get there until
he'd be real to you and you could
say he's mine and I'm his I was
a chaplain a little while in the second
world war your little decisions they went out
the wind in two weeks that's the boy
got away from church and mama that's right
I know what I'm talking about the Christian
boys in the camp of thirty thousand men
would follow me around like a little dog
would his master the so lonesome and so
beaten and whipped in the midst of Baptists
and Presbyterians and Methodists and Catholics and this
that and the other who made a little
decision called it salvation but Jesus wasn't real
to them and I'm telling you now that
you're living in a day when all hell's
popping loose and nothing except the real thing
is going to get the job done and
I say the biggest sin a human being
can ever face is to find out who
Jesus is and it ain't real to you
all the glory of his person and the
splendor of his work when he laid down
his life on a bloody cross who is
Jesus who is Jesus where is he he's
on God's throne and ladies and gentlemen he
changes everything he touches and if there's one
scandal of what we call Christendom today it's
unchanged lives nice creeds orthodoxes all get out
but not transformed as they sang this morning
but the only Jesus who took his men
and dynamite flows from him into them is
the living Lord and if your life hadn't
been changed with a change that kept on
changing you day by day and will keep
on changing you until you're conformed to the
image of Christ you've never touched the Lord
and you're not saved that's so there are
three things that are settled about who Jesus
is he's your Lord whether you like it
or not God made him Lord there's a
second thing that's been settled about who Jesus
is he's the one who will save you
or damn you he will save you or
damn you, he's been given that job you
do not have the privilege of deciding whether
you'll accept him or reject him you do
have something to say about when you'll accept
him or accept him you must he'll make
you it's settled that you will receive him
as Lord in the New Testament, let me
give you two or three statistics in the
entire New Testament Jesus Christ is called Savior
24 times he's called Lord 520 times must
be some significance in that he's called Lord
Jesus Christ 81 times 24 times he's called
Savior 520 times he's called Lord 81 times
he's called the Lord Jesus Christ in the
book of Acts that's where we learn how
to preach we're to preach like the Apostles
did we're to preach the truth like they
did if we can we're to preach the
same Jesus that the Apostles preached and their
sermons are recorded every one of them in
the book of Acts, is that right?
all the recorded sermons we have of the
Apostles in the book of Acts and they
mention the fact that he's now the Lord
520 times he's the Lord Jesus Christ 81
times he's Savior 24 times in the entire
book, and in the book of Acts I'm
sorry, he's called Savior only twice, and both
times that refers to the Father and he's
called Lord 92 times in the book of
Acts now there's some meaning, I don't know
how on earth you Bible professors and us
Baptists come in trying to get people to
accept Jesus as Savior the New Testament preachers
didn't ask anybody to take him as Savior
they said surrender to him as Lord, and
as your Lord he saves you by establishing
his blessed rule in your life that's what
salvation is there are three things about preaching
Jesus Christ where he is now the enthroned
living Lord and Lord of life absolute desperate
of your life you say you must bring
all your thoughts into captivity to him, do
you?
how come you claim to be a Christian
if you don't?
why don't you quick listen to these fool
preachers that are after your dollar and don't
give a hoot for your soul everything must
be brought unto him everything now honey that
will keep you out of meanness we could
have some prayer meetings in our churches if
we had some gospel, but you dear folks
you never have to repent because you don't
know nothing about Jesus man you face the
implications of the absolute totalitarian rule of Jesus
Christ that he's got a right to in
your life and he exercises that right, and
you'll never be able to go to bed
at night without pouring out your hard old
gut, forgive me forgive me, I've sinned I've
fallen so far short it's little fool Jesus
that these preachers have sold this country down
west while you can live just like you
want to, and when the preacher says that
there's no repentance in the bible, it doesn't
have to be repented the next day and
there's no saving exercise there's a faith that
you don't have to exercise it again the
next day and there's no commitment to Christ
that you don't have to do it all
over again tomorrow, and you'll have to do
it a thousand or a hundred times every
day you will because you have to come
to who's running your life you or King
Jesus every decision you make that'll be involved
in it that'll keep you out of meanness
and we could have something beside this stuff
that's a stitch in the nostrils of a
thrice holy God that we call salvation today
there are three things that have been settled
about preaching the truth about him, first I
repeat it, you're going to bow to him
every knee's going to bow second, you can't
win by persuasion and his sweet wooing he
persuades men now he will not force you
but one day he'll put his foot on
your neck and make you bow to his
lordship that's the scripture, you can't win and
then thank God in grace God holds back
that day of judgment not willing that any
should perish that's really long suffering and his
delay is coming but demanding that all come
to repentance there the church preached to Jesus
who's the lord of life, he is born
a virgin he's crucified on a tree he
is raised from the dead and they said
salvation being united to him who is he?
he's the enthroned prime minister of God's world
who is he?
he's the one who has the crown rights
to your life he's the one to whom
every knee will one day bow every tongue
will one day confess he's the son of
God's love this day said the angel to
the shepherd the Lord is born in the
city of Jerusalem a savior who is Christ
the Lord who is the blessed savior he's
the lord of glory he's the enthroned son
of God he's the son of Jesus the
enthroned Jesus and there is none other name
unto heaven given among men whereby we must
be saved Jesus is the sweetest name I
know and he's just the same as his
lovely name and that's the reason why I
love him so Jesus is the sweetest name
I know the preaching of the Jesus of
the bible strikes at the very heart of
man's fallen condition you can do as we've
had in the last 60 years preach a
divided Jesus preach a part of his work
as God's priest we don't even preach all
that we don't make any reference much these
days what to call the gospel to the
present intercession of the Lord but we don't
pay great attention to his teaching he was
God's prophet you know and if you do
not live by his teaching you're silly to
talk about being Christian and then we don't
pay attention to the fact that he's on
the throne, God's absolute Lord God made him
and you folks go, oh he saved man!
well who's me, he hadn't saved your sauce
he hadn't he doesn't save your daily walk
huh?
he hadn't fixed you so that every day
is a day of repentance and faith and
that kind of salvation is no good but
when you preach that Christ Jesus the enthroned
Christ he was in Mary's womb he's not
there now he did walk here on the
earth he doesn't do that now he was
crucified he's not on that cross now he
was put in another man's tomb grave but
he's not there now he's on God's throne
and God's turned everything over to him and
he's the only one that's got rights to
control you absolutely if I ordered you around
you'd run me out of town but that's
exactly what Jesus does he is the totalitarian
dictator and he's got a right to order
you around he bought you with his blood
and he exercises that right and I can't
call half a dozen names here I'm bad
about remembering names but there's one thing I
know about every last one of you myself
included your reaction to authority is the best
index to the kind of person you are
and I know that you were born I'm
shaking the very word and I know that
you were born a rebel against the authority
of God and I know that you rebelled
against God's authority in the Garden of Eden
and on Golgotha's hill when you have murdered
God in the flesh and refused to receive
him and I know that that nature that's
yours hates the very mention of authority and
I know that salvation is to have the
authority the sovereign rule the authority of almighty
God in Christ reestablished in your life that's
what salvation is and I know that a
Christian is happy to be under the rule
of Jesus Christ and everybody else hates the
very mention of it and the preaching of
the Jesus of the Bible will stir up
rebellion I wish the spirit of God come
on me, I guess he won't I don't
have enough power to scare a flea not
a preacher living, got any power God help
us if you are alright I wish you'd
pray for me before I die let's preach
one sermon in the anointing of the Holy
Spirit where you nice people would get you
a shotgun try to kill God if you
couldn't get to him you'd kill me or
you'd repent and bow to my blessed Lord
we're not killing preachers now and we're not
bowing to Jesus God help us we're in
an awful shape but the gospel is the
announcement of the rule of God in Jesus
Christ that's what it is the preaching of
the Lordship of Christ will get results, will
get people off the fence wouldn't you love
to see it brother pastor I would I
wish they'd go to burning bridges around here,
they wouldn't bother me much I'm too skinny
I wish they'd go to throwing bombs at
our church buildings but see we haven't got
enough on the ball, they don't riot and
try to tear up our church buildings, we're
not bothering anybody they had riots out in
Chicago they was trying to shoot at the
president and all that you know we don't
stir enough interest, ain't nobody mad at us
they just ignore us wouldn't you love to
see it so that people were far against
the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ and
they'd either curse him and say away with
him or like the centurion who watched my
Lord on a cross surely this man was
the son of God I served a little
while as a chaplain in World War II
boy you talk about having a big time
I was in one trouble after another leg
major general commander of the camp 30,000
young cadets and a supervisor chaplain, a lieutenant
colonel they were both Roman Catholics every Saturday
night they'd get drunk together down at the
country club and when they get good and
drunk they'd sit there and curse me and
figure out ways to deal with me I
had to have the chief of chaplains come
down five times while I was in the
army to meet her to act as mediator
they'd tell me I couldn't do this and
I'd go ahead and do it you know
and then I'd get in trouble and we
had more fun than a barrel of books
I'd pass out tracts and they detailed two
book privates the Catholics did to go around
and pick up all the tracts for anybody
to read and I'd preach the gospel and
that's against the law in the army they
warned you to tell the boys how to
hold their liquor and how to have sexual
intercourse without contracting venereal disease they instructed you
boy how to do that did you know
that and they wanted me to when a
boy came to offer him a cigarette and
a drink of whiskey you know and get
him to feeling good and then counsel him
to be a good little boy and all
that tomfoolery oh I had more fun than
a barrel of monkeys that supervisor chaplain said
you give us more hell than all the
other hundred and ninety chaplains I got under
me he said you're just in one mess
after another he said why can't you be
a human he said then he said a
soldier got to have a quart of liquor
and a blonde every Saturday night to make
life worth living that's religion for you and
that ain't confined to Catholicism either I had
a Jewish chaplain on that field he was
an Orthodox Jew he was a fine gentleman
the only time he ever touched liquor was
when they had a marriage sober as an
owl clean minded never told a dirty joke
never used God's name in vain as honorable
and decent as he could be and he
always scotched for me when the chief of
chaplains had come down he'd take my side
and tell the chief of chaplains the truth
about what's going on and I'd help him
out some and we got to be buddies
and the post chaplain in Bosnia and the
Army you'll explain over these terms the post
chaplain was a unitarian and he had his
office up in the front of the little
chapel I was in and I was back
yonder and the Jewish chaplain there, that's just
one of many chapels of course on the
post and this Jewish chaplain despised the guy
in the front office he said it's not
even decent for him to claim to be
a Christian because he does not believe that
Jesus is the Son of God and God
the Son and the Jewish chaplain who carried
a New Testament in his pocket and read
out of it every day and said I'm
coming more and more to believe that Jesus
was as great a teacher and prophet as
Moses and that's something for an orthodox Jew
and that Jewish chaplain would say to me
chaplain if I could believe that Jesus is
what the New Testament said he is I'd
fall at his feet and I'd worship him
and I'd serve him till the day I
die and so will you if you ever
come to where you deep down inside of
you actually can believe the testimony of this
book where Jesus he's the Son of God
where Jesus very man very God where Jesus
God the Son where Jesus then told prime
minister got there by way of a bloody
cross where Jesus God manifested the flesh where
Jesus great without controversy great is the mystery
of God where this God was manifest God
was manifest in the flesh where Jesus he's
the savior of men and women who are
joined to him he saves men by establishing
establishing God's rule in their lives hallelujah what
a savior men and women need to seek
faith who is Jesus Peter says in Acts
chapter 5 that God exalted him and made
him what a prince, a sovereign and a
savior for to give repentance and forgiveness of
sins seek him cry to God that he'll
wrap and take the steel from off your
eyes that you get a glimpse of the
Son of the living God that salvation our
Father in blood stained Jesus name he who
yonder reigns and the mark of the nail
still in his hands the mark of that
crown of thorns still on his brow the
lovely Lord in his blessed name we bring
this congregation to him pray that in mercy
he'll deal with us for his sake I'm
going to ask you to stand and sing
my favorite song number 707 Brother King 707
pass me not O gentle Savior hear my
humble cry while on others thou art calling
do not pass me by men are locked
up in death row they're not going to
be condemned already they're locked up in a
cell and they don't have the key Jesus
Christ got the key he can set you
free while he walks down by that cell
where you're locked up begin to cry out
to him Savior Savior hear my humble cry
while you're stuck at that cell, unlock that
door and let that prisoner out, set him
free come on down to my cell if
you will set me free set me
free better stand and sing it I'm
going to ask you to stand and sing
my favorite song 707 Brother King pass me
not O gentle Savior while on others thou
art calling do not pass me by
men are locked up they're not going to
be condemned Last
Lord's Day, I had the privilege of being
in a Baptist congregation down in my state
where the Lord has bested the people and
people are coming to the Lord by the
droves and I got to preach to the
29 men and a lot of women and
children said the Lord