1 00:00:01,070 --> 00:00:03,270 I'd ask you to turn tonight, if you 2 00:00:03,270 --> 00:00:07,150 will, to the book of Matthew, chapter 22, 3 00:00:07,490 --> 00:00:09,270 Matthew chapter 22. 4 00:00:10,250 --> 00:00:13,910 This morning I took a little time to 5 00:00:13,910 --> 00:00:15,370 exhort. 6 00:00:17,370 --> 00:00:22,930 This morning I said that every congregation calling 7 00:00:22,930 --> 00:00:26,190 itself a local assembly of the body of 8 00:00:26,190 --> 00:00:30,490 Christ is split, terribly split. 9 00:00:30,790 --> 00:00:32,050 We are not together. 10 00:00:32,870 --> 00:00:34,690 We are desperately divided. 11 00:00:35,570 --> 00:00:39,030 And we're divided, as I understand it, over 12 00:00:39,030 --> 00:00:41,990 three tremendously important things. 13 00:00:42,130 --> 00:00:48,530 First, we're divided over what Jesus did on 14 00:00:48,530 --> 00:00:51,850 the cross and what he's doing now on 15 00:00:51,850 --> 00:00:55,310 the throne, and why he did it. 16 00:00:55,310 --> 00:00:58,190 We're desperately divided there. 17 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,019 Tonight I'm to speak on the second thing 18 00:01:03,019 --> 00:01:08,700 that divides every congregation, who is Jesus. 19 00:01:10,940 --> 00:01:14,040 Tuesday night we're making a concession to the 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,640 labor day and are not having services tomorrow 21 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,180 evening. 22 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,340 Tuesday night we bring the third thing about 23 00:01:24,340 --> 00:01:28,820 which every congregation is desperately divided. 24 00:01:29,660 --> 00:01:32,140 What does it mean to be saved? 25 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,120 The cheapest word in the English language now 26 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:38,640 is the word saved. 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,320 It ought to be a precious word. 28 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:44,860 I've never, as I said this morning, ministered 29 00:01:44,860 --> 00:01:48,820 to a Bible Presbyterian congregation before. 30 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:52,340 Most of my ministry, of course, except for 31 00:01:52,340 --> 00:01:55,680 union meetings, has been most of it among 32 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,600 people called Baptists. 33 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,140 But after preaching to you once, I see 34 00:02:01,140 --> 00:02:02,280 you're akin to us. 35 00:02:02,980 --> 00:02:05,320 You've got a lot of Sunday morning Christians. 36 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:07,800 We've got them down our way. 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,260 Gipsy Smith said that if the Lord didn't 38 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:13,200 come for his people between the hours of 39 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,120 11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday morning, 40 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,080 he's going to have a hard time finding 41 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:17,340 them. 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,840 But we all suffer this. 43 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,660 It's not because the people are bad. 44 00:02:27,940 --> 00:02:29,920 It's just that they don't know who Jesus 45 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:30,420 is. 46 00:02:32,750 --> 00:02:38,530 Their conception of Jesus is utterly different from 47 00:02:38,530 --> 00:02:42,050 the Bible portrait of him. 48 00:02:42,890 --> 00:02:44,930 And then they don't know what it means 49 00:02:44,930 --> 00:02:45,710 to be saved. 50 00:02:48,250 --> 00:02:51,070 They think that it's a fire escape from 51 00:02:51,070 --> 00:02:51,510 hell. 52 00:02:51,690 --> 00:02:55,270 They do not know that the last word 53 00:02:55,270 --> 00:02:57,570 of my Lord is not, I save, but 54 00:02:57,570 --> 00:02:58,470 I claim. 55 00:02:59,910 --> 00:03:02,950 And anybody that's not head over heels involved 56 00:03:02,950 --> 00:03:06,350 in the redemptive program of Jesus Christ is 57 00:03:06,350 --> 00:03:07,130 not saved. 58 00:03:08,530 --> 00:03:10,890 And that takes care of nearly everybody in 59 00:03:10,890 --> 00:03:12,950 our Baptist ranks and a whole lot of 60 00:03:12,950 --> 00:03:13,970 you Presbyterians. 61 00:03:14,030 --> 00:03:15,450 I'm not happy about that. 62 00:03:16,010 --> 00:03:17,770 But so help me God when I get 63 00:03:17,770 --> 00:03:19,930 a chance, I do face people with that 64 00:03:19,930 --> 00:03:20,430 truth. 65 00:03:20,530 --> 00:03:22,130 I don't ask them to believe it. 66 00:03:22,670 --> 00:03:23,990 Just ask them to hear me. 67 00:03:24,670 --> 00:03:26,430 What does it mean to be saved? 68 00:03:30,180 --> 00:03:33,600 Tuesday night, I hope you can hear me. 69 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,560 It's good to see friends and we made 70 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,760 an attempt campaign. 71 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,500 It's mostly the people hurt. 72 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:42,560 The camp felt the pain, but we had 73 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:43,200 some friends. 74 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,200 I have planned to have two weeks of 75 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:50,480 rest. 76 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,060 I got a week and a half and 77 00:03:52,060 --> 00:03:53,180 I feel mighty good. 78 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,240 And I looked in on a little of 79 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,700 the show they had in Chicago. 80 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,860 And I saw how the Democrats are divided. 81 00:04:05,060 --> 00:04:09,180 Didn't get to control the Republican convention. 82 00:04:09,380 --> 00:04:10,580 They said they got together. 83 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,660 But I'm not interested in their divisions. 84 00:04:14,820 --> 00:04:17,180 I'm not interested in the thousand things that 85 00:04:17,180 --> 00:04:17,880 divide us. 86 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,180 I'm not interested on your view on the 87 00:04:20,180 --> 00:04:20,959 last things. 88 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:25,260 I refuse to fight you about it. 89 00:04:25,340 --> 00:04:27,040 Of course, I'm right and you're wrong. 90 00:04:27,140 --> 00:04:28,520 But I'm going to love you anyhow. 91 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,260 I'm not interested in the thousand things. 92 00:04:32,420 --> 00:04:36,200 Down our way, a real Christian woman wouldn't 93 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,820 be seen in shorts. 94 00:04:37,940 --> 00:04:40,500 Up here, the finest Christian women wear them. 95 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,720 So I guess I'm not going to preach 96 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:43,300 on that. 97 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:50,180 Down our way, a lot of the finest 98 00:04:50,180 --> 00:04:51,800 Christians I know use tobacco. 99 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,080 Up here, that's the unpardonable sin. 100 00:04:54,220 --> 00:04:56,240 But down our way, a real Christian wouldn't 101 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,620 be seen 50 miles of a mixed bathing 102 00:04:59,620 --> 00:05:00,180 party. 103 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,280 Up here, you all put on a handkerchief 104 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:02,920 and go in. 105 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:04,620 So we're all divided. 106 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,060 But I'm not going to give my ministry 107 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,340 going up and down the land trying to 108 00:05:12,340 --> 00:05:16,120 face those divisions because they do not amount 109 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,200 to hill of beans when we call your 110 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:24,040 attention to the deep divisions that have hamstrung 111 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,260 the professing Church of Jesus Christ and are 112 00:05:28,260 --> 00:05:31,200 causing deep thinkers to say not only that 113 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,960 churches as they are now will not survive, 114 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:35,360 but they ought not to. 115 00:05:35,540 --> 00:05:36,520 And I agree with them. 116 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,640 Unless the God Almighty comes to the rescue 117 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,900 of a congregation like yours and does something 118 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:46,160 for you and in you and through you 119 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,120 that only he can do, I don't know 120 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,500 whether he'll be that merciful or not. 121 00:05:49,540 --> 00:05:51,000 He may let you just go on being 122 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,440 nice little orthodox people and let the world 123 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,120 go to hell and most of you join 124 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:56,480 them. 125 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,920 But wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord 126 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,680 would intervene and he'd rock us from bottom 127 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:07,740 to top and he would reveal these deep 128 00:06:07,740 --> 00:06:12,260 divisions over the Christ of the cross and 129 00:06:12,260 --> 00:06:14,880 the throne and who he really is. 130 00:06:15,660 --> 00:06:18,520 And surely we wouldn't be much interested in 131 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,420 what he did on a cross and what 132 00:06:20,420 --> 00:06:23,620 he's doing on a throne unless we were 133 00:06:23,620 --> 00:06:25,900 deeply interested in who he is. 134 00:06:25,940 --> 00:06:29,280 For what he did is no good unless 135 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:32,660 he is the person the Bible says he 136 00:06:32,660 --> 00:06:33,200 is. 137 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,240 When we remember that the scriptures never divide 138 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,320 the person and work of Christ. 139 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:40,700 Fundamentalists do. 140 00:06:40,980 --> 00:06:41,880 Baptists do. 141 00:06:42,380 --> 00:06:44,220 Bible Presbyterians do. 142 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:45,820 You go on to hell most of you 143 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:47,800 trusting the blood of Christ. 144 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:49,140 That wouldn't save a fleet. 145 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,080 It's the Christ of the blood that you 146 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,620 need to be vitally joined to. 147 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,960 I wish we'd believe that. 148 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:00,000 Baptists don't. 149 00:07:00,140 --> 00:07:02,880 We fill our churches full of folks trusting 150 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:03,560 a fact. 151 00:07:04,180 --> 00:07:07,400 But they've never been united to the living 152 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,640 Lord who is the Lord of life. 153 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,980 That's what saving faith does. 154 00:07:16,830 --> 00:07:18,690 And I said oh let's say this. 155 00:07:18,850 --> 00:07:20,650 If you use the message you've used in 156 00:07:20,650 --> 00:07:23,310 the past we won't get to first base 157 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:23,690 here. 158 00:07:24,230 --> 00:07:25,730 These are different times. 159 00:07:26,370 --> 00:07:28,750 And you know everybody in Westchester's done got 160 00:07:28,750 --> 00:07:31,710 converted and they don't need to hear the 161 00:07:31,710 --> 00:07:33,810 word or be around the Lord. 162 00:07:33,810 --> 00:07:37,470 They're all fishing somewhere and they're not much 163 00:07:37,470 --> 00:07:40,370 interested in the fact that we're having evangelistic 164 00:07:40,370 --> 00:07:41,350 services here. 165 00:07:41,570 --> 00:07:43,710 Just an invitation won't do much good. 166 00:07:44,990 --> 00:07:47,590 And you're going to have to strike out 167 00:07:47,590 --> 00:07:50,170 or go after it harder than you ever 168 00:07:50,170 --> 00:07:50,470 have. 169 00:07:50,570 --> 00:07:51,070 Isn't that right? 170 00:07:51,170 --> 00:07:52,190 I think that's so. 171 00:07:52,290 --> 00:07:56,190 Do your dead level best and we'll thank 172 00:07:56,190 --> 00:07:57,310 God for the result. 173 00:07:58,130 --> 00:07:59,070 Who is Jesus? 174 00:07:59,790 --> 00:08:03,730 In the 22nd chapter of the book of 175 00:08:03,730 --> 00:08:05,150 Matthew it's interesting. 176 00:08:05,350 --> 00:08:07,130 The Lord's dealing with his enemies. 177 00:08:09,530 --> 00:08:12,590 The fundamentalists, they were the Sadducees. 178 00:08:13,370 --> 00:08:15,330 They didn't even believe in the resurrection. 179 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:19,270 The modernists, they were the Pharisees. 180 00:08:20,430 --> 00:08:23,890 They were the highest type religious people on 181 00:08:23,890 --> 00:08:25,290 the topside of God's earth. 182 00:08:25,290 --> 00:08:28,030 When the Lord tabernacled here in the days 183 00:08:28,030 --> 00:08:28,810 of his flesh. 184 00:08:29,830 --> 00:08:32,590 And the Lord, he wasn't having trouble with 185 00:08:32,590 --> 00:08:34,110 one of them, he was having trouble with 186 00:08:34,110 --> 00:08:34,450 the other. 187 00:08:34,610 --> 00:08:37,150 And sometimes they'd make up their differences and 188 00:08:37,150 --> 00:08:38,770 join hands and try to get him in 189 00:08:38,770 --> 00:08:39,210 a corner. 190 00:08:40,190 --> 00:08:42,350 I'll take the time to go into it, 191 00:08:42,390 --> 00:08:45,690 but here in chapter 22, for instance, you'll 192 00:08:45,690 --> 00:08:50,350 read that in verse 15, then went the 193 00:08:50,350 --> 00:08:51,290 Pharisees. 194 00:08:51,670 --> 00:08:54,010 They were the modernists of their day. 195 00:08:54,010 --> 00:08:58,330 These modernists, they're not new, they're as old 196 00:08:58,330 --> 00:08:59,370 as the Pharisees. 197 00:08:59,490 --> 00:09:02,670 Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how 198 00:09:02,670 --> 00:09:05,910 they might entangle him, that's the Lord Jesus, 199 00:09:06,470 --> 00:09:07,550 in his talk. 200 00:09:08,250 --> 00:09:11,330 And then in verse 23, the fundamentalists of 201 00:09:11,330 --> 00:09:14,150 the day, they decided they'd have a crack 202 00:09:14,150 --> 00:09:15,170 at the Lord Jesus. 203 00:09:15,470 --> 00:09:17,310 And the scriptures say in verse 23, the 204 00:09:17,310 --> 00:09:21,710 same day came to him the Sadducees, which 205 00:09:21,710 --> 00:09:23,610 say that there is no resurrection. 206 00:09:24,470 --> 00:09:25,080 They were fundamentalists. 207 00:09:25,730 --> 00:09:28,530 The Old Testament does not plainly teach a 208 00:09:28,530 --> 00:09:29,090 resurrection. 209 00:09:29,990 --> 00:09:32,890 And these Pharisees, they believe the Bible word 210 00:09:32,890 --> 00:09:35,730 for word, like you brethren do, but that's 211 00:09:35,730 --> 00:09:36,390 no good. 212 00:09:37,210 --> 00:09:39,250 That's literalism and legalism. 213 00:09:40,010 --> 00:09:43,140 And these Sadducees were the fundamentalists. 214 00:09:44,130 --> 00:09:47,090 There's this fellow Jesus, talking about a resurrection, 215 00:09:47,330 --> 00:09:48,750 they said not a word of truth in 216 00:09:48,750 --> 00:09:48,870 it. 217 00:09:48,870 --> 00:09:52,030 And they came and they decided they'd hymn 218 00:09:52,030 --> 00:09:53,670 the Lord Jesus Christ up. 219 00:09:53,790 --> 00:09:57,370 And then in verse 34, when the Pharisees 220 00:09:57,370 --> 00:10:00,310 heard that he'd put the Sadducees to silence, 221 00:10:01,490 --> 00:10:03,270 they were gathered together. 222 00:10:03,450 --> 00:10:05,090 And they said, well, he's not going to 223 00:10:05,090 --> 00:10:06,910 fix us like he did the Sadducees. 224 00:10:07,130 --> 00:10:09,310 And they asked him through one of their 225 00:10:09,310 --> 00:10:11,170 members, a scribe, a lawyer. 226 00:10:12,110 --> 00:10:15,150 And so in verse 41, it says while 227 00:10:15,150 --> 00:10:18,770 the Pharisees were gathered together trying to entangle 228 00:10:18,770 --> 00:10:22,470 him with their questions, he did as he 229 00:10:22,470 --> 00:10:23,530 always did. 230 00:10:23,890 --> 00:10:27,850 Instead of answering a question designed to entangle 231 00:10:27,850 --> 00:10:29,390 him, he always asked one. 232 00:10:29,970 --> 00:10:32,790 And he asked a tremendously important question here, 233 00:10:32,850 --> 00:10:33,590 and we'll read it. 234 00:10:33,750 --> 00:10:37,270 Verse 41, while the Pharisees were gathered together, 235 00:10:37,770 --> 00:10:39,170 Jesus asked them. 236 00:10:39,250 --> 00:10:41,390 They'd been asking him, so he asked them. 237 00:10:41,750 --> 00:10:42,710 And he said, what? 238 00:10:43,090 --> 00:10:45,030 Think ye of Christ. 239 00:10:47,110 --> 00:10:50,170 You've been asking me about the greatest commandment 240 00:10:50,170 --> 00:10:52,650 and how many times shall I get married 241 00:10:52,650 --> 00:10:54,150 and whether you ought to pay your taxes 242 00:10:54,150 --> 00:10:55,970 to Caesar or not, and so forth. 243 00:10:56,050 --> 00:10:56,890 You read that chapter. 244 00:10:57,010 --> 00:10:58,230 He said, I've got a little question for 245 00:10:58,230 --> 00:10:58,650 you. 246 00:10:59,230 --> 00:11:02,330 What think ye of Christ? 247 00:11:03,990 --> 00:11:06,510 Whose son is he? 248 00:11:08,110 --> 00:11:10,430 Now that's a whole lot more important question 249 00:11:10,430 --> 00:11:12,730 than whether you ought to render tribute to 250 00:11:12,730 --> 00:11:13,430 Caesar or not. 251 00:11:13,530 --> 00:11:15,310 They tried to him him up there, which 252 00:11:15,310 --> 00:11:17,470 is the greatest commandment, or how many times 253 00:11:17,470 --> 00:11:18,910 shall a fellow get married, if he had 254 00:11:18,910 --> 00:11:21,270 six or seven, how many of them, in 255 00:11:21,270 --> 00:11:23,490 the time of the resurrection, and so forth. 256 00:11:23,750 --> 00:11:25,490 What think ye of Christ? 257 00:11:26,310 --> 00:11:28,150 Whose son is he? 258 00:11:29,510 --> 00:11:32,530 And they say unto him, why, he's the 259 00:11:32,530 --> 00:11:33,410 son of David. 260 00:11:34,550 --> 00:11:37,650 And he saith unto them, how then doth 261 00:11:37,650 --> 00:11:42,210 David in spirit call him Lord? 262 00:11:43,810 --> 00:11:47,390 Singing, the Lord said unto my Lord, sit 263 00:11:47,390 --> 00:11:50,130 thou on my right hand, till I make 264 00:11:50,130 --> 00:11:52,330 thine enemies thy footstool. 265 00:11:53,490 --> 00:11:55,830 And then the Lord said, if David then 266 00:11:55,830 --> 00:12:01,670 call him Lord, how is he his son? 267 00:12:05,030 --> 00:12:07,130 And no man was able to answer him 268 00:12:07,130 --> 00:12:11,390 a word, neither dost any man from that 269 00:12:11,390 --> 00:12:19,290 day forth ask him any more questions. 270 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:22,990 Would you turn, if you will, please, to 271 00:12:22,990 --> 00:12:27,470 the gospel of John, at chapter one. 272 00:12:29,030 --> 00:12:33,790 Our subject tonight is whose son is Jesus? 273 00:12:34,710 --> 00:12:35,810 Is he just a man? 274 00:12:36,330 --> 00:12:37,430 He was a man. 275 00:12:38,190 --> 00:12:38,790 Is that all? 276 00:12:40,170 --> 00:12:42,470 Whose son is Jesus? 277 00:12:42,470 --> 00:12:43,770 Who is Jesus? 278 00:12:45,370 --> 00:12:51,250 If David calls him Lord, how can he 279 00:12:51,250 --> 00:12:52,770 be his son, simply? 280 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,660 And here in the description of the Holy 281 00:12:57,660 --> 00:13:02,560 Spirit, in chapter one of John's gospel, verse 282 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:04,760 six says, there was a man sent from 283 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,220 God whose name was John. 284 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:10,300 The same man came for a witness, to 285 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:13,400 bear witness of the life that all through 286 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:14,780 him might believe. 287 00:13:15,540 --> 00:13:19,160 Now, he was not that light, but was 288 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,000 sent to bear witness of that light that 289 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,100 was the true light, which lighted every man 290 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:28,760 that cometh into the world. 291 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,600 The world can never be the same. 292 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,680 No man can ever be the same. 293 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,400 No man has any excuse since Jesus Christ 294 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,060 came to light the pathway for every man. 295 00:13:43,420 --> 00:13:47,320 And this one, which lighted every man that 296 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,000 cometh into the world, of whom John the 297 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,740 Baptist was sent to bear witness of that 298 00:13:54,740 --> 00:13:55,520 true light. 299 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,180 He was in the world. 300 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,980 And the world was made by him. 301 00:14:03,260 --> 00:14:06,020 And the world knew him not. 302 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,740 He came and tabernacled here in the flesh 303 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:12,380 for some thirty-three years and most folks 304 00:14:12,380 --> 00:14:18,280 never knew that God was in the flesh 305 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,740 reconciling this world to himself. 306 00:14:25,810 --> 00:14:27,190 But that is all of it. 307 00:14:27,290 --> 00:14:29,210 Not only did the world not know him, 308 00:14:29,290 --> 00:14:32,930 not recognize him, but he came into his 309 00:14:32,930 --> 00:14:36,050 own, his own nation, the Jewish elect covenant 310 00:14:36,050 --> 00:14:36,750 nation. 311 00:14:37,850 --> 00:14:40,390 And his own, and there's a play on 312 00:14:40,390 --> 00:14:44,170 words, his own household, his brothers and sisters 313 00:14:44,170 --> 00:14:49,660 in the flesh, half-brothers, they received him 314 00:14:49,660 --> 00:14:56,350 not, but to as many as received him. 315 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:00,620 You see, he was the thorn in the 316 00:15:00,620 --> 00:15:01,060 flesh. 317 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,700 Doesn't say as to men as received it 318 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:04,440 not. 319 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:06,440 That's what they call salvation. 320 00:15:07,220 --> 00:15:08,140 But says him. 321 00:15:09,460 --> 00:15:11,540 The gospel is Christ. 322 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,380 Not his death, not his resurrection, not his 323 00:15:16,380 --> 00:15:19,800 perfect sinless life, not his ascension to the 324 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,540 throne, not his present reign. 325 00:15:22,020 --> 00:15:24,360 But the gospel is the Christ who was 326 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,320 virgin born, the Christ who lived a sinless 327 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,640 life, the Christ who was crucified on a 328 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,080 cross, the Christ who was raised from the 329 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,460 dead, the Christ whom God exalted and put 330 00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:39,360 on the throne, the Christ who's reigning now 331 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,880 till all his enemies have made his footstool, 332 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:44,960 the Christ who's coming back to bring this 333 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,420 world to judgment, the Christ. 334 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,100 And the gospel is Christ. 335 00:15:52,540 --> 00:15:56,840 And there's never been any controversy about an 336 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,920 if that Christ did. 337 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:00,480 It's a him. 338 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:10,260 They didn't refuse to receive a gift or 339 00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:11,640 an accomplishment. 340 00:16:12,260 --> 00:16:15,080 They received him not. 341 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:21,080 But to his men is received him. 342 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:26,860 You see, this world's full of nice people. 343 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:33,900 They've received salvation, but they still in rebellion 344 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:34,940 against him. 345 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,020 And that kind of salvation's not worth a 346 00:16:38,020 --> 00:16:38,340 dime. 347 00:16:40,550 --> 00:16:42,530 But to his men is received him. 348 00:16:44,010 --> 00:16:45,770 He's the thorn in the flesh. 349 00:16:45,870 --> 00:16:48,050 He's the one that Luke will tell us 350 00:16:48,050 --> 00:16:53,070 is set for the rise and the fall 351 00:16:53,070 --> 00:16:53,890 of many. 352 00:16:57,900 --> 00:16:59,920 But to his men is received him. 353 00:17:02,530 --> 00:17:06,109 To them gave he the right to become 354 00:17:06,109 --> 00:17:07,910 the children of God. 355 00:17:08,730 --> 00:17:11,349 Your King James says the sons, but that's 356 00:17:11,349 --> 00:17:12,250 clearly wrong. 357 00:17:12,369 --> 00:17:17,970 The children of God, even to them that 358 00:17:17,970 --> 00:17:20,550 believe on his name. 359 00:17:20,550 --> 00:17:26,540 Now here's proposition that I invite your attention 360 00:17:26,540 --> 00:17:26,780 to. 361 00:17:27,020 --> 00:17:29,400 Everybody believes something about Jesus. 362 00:17:31,740 --> 00:17:33,920 The Mohammedans will tell you that he's as 363 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:39,680 great a prophet as Mohammed. 364 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:45,160 The liberals, the modernists of our day say 365 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:49,640 he's the highest product of mankind that's ever 366 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:51,100 graced this earth. 367 00:17:52,380 --> 00:17:54,400 That he had more of God in him 368 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,880 than any human being that ever lived. 369 00:17:59,030 --> 00:18:05,070 The fundamentalists say that he was here and 370 00:18:05,070 --> 00:18:07,650 he died and he's still dead. 371 00:18:12,090 --> 00:18:14,830 The liberals make much of his passion and 372 00:18:14,830 --> 00:18:16,510 deny his cross. 373 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,900 We Baptists call him savior but rebel against 374 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:24,860 his rule. 375 00:18:26,660 --> 00:18:29,500 It's not that men do not believe some 376 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:32,480 things about Jesus as to who he is. 377 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,740 It's that their faith is defective. 378 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,200 Their belief won't get the job done. 379 00:18:40,660 --> 00:18:42,620 You do not face that in your witnesses. 380 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:43,980 You go out and try to get somebody 381 00:18:43,980 --> 00:18:46,480 to take Jesus, honey, they done taken him 382 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:47,320 a dozen times. 383 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,240 And it hadn't transformed their life because the 384 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,100 Jesus they accepted and the Jesus of the 385 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:55,620 Bible are two different people. 386 00:18:58,180 --> 00:18:59,740 You try to get somebody to believe in 387 00:18:59,740 --> 00:19:01,220 Jesus, they already do. 388 00:19:01,220 --> 00:19:02,060 They believe. 389 00:19:02,060 --> 00:19:04,880 They believe something about him and they're perfectly 390 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,840 satisfied with their relation or lack of it 391 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,320 with Jesus Christ. 392 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:14,020 You go to the hospital and find anybody 393 00:19:14,020 --> 00:19:15,820 who won't talk to you about the good 394 00:19:15,820 --> 00:19:16,180 Lord. 395 00:19:17,380 --> 00:19:21,360 You go to the jails, everybody in jail 396 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:23,440 a great believer in Jesus. 397 00:19:25,780 --> 00:19:28,020 And all the people in our churches have 398 00:19:28,020 --> 00:19:32,640 some sort of faith, some sort of belief 399 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,580 translated into action, which is faith. 400 00:19:36,460 --> 00:19:40,900 They've committed themselves some way or another to 401 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:42,680 this one called Jesus. 402 00:19:44,780 --> 00:19:47,700 Mr. Moody, when he lay dying, did it 403 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:50,200 rightly when he said all he'd had to 404 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,600 do was to go up and down this 405 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,660 country where people read their Bibles and people 406 00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:58,380 knew something about biblical truth then in the 407 00:19:58,380 --> 00:19:59,180 church and out. 408 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,140 And he said all I had to do 409 00:20:02,140 --> 00:20:03,500 was go up and down the land and 410 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:05,580 exhort men to believe in Jesus. 411 00:20:05,860 --> 00:20:08,200 But the preachers who follow me, I wish 412 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:09,680 they'd listen to him, they didn't. 413 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:13,540 The preachers who follow me will be foolish 414 00:20:13,540 --> 00:20:16,940 to exhort anyone to believe in Jesus for 415 00:20:16,940 --> 00:20:19,560 their first task will be to fight through 416 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,100 the battle of who he is. 417 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,320 That's the issue of this hour. 418 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:25,420 Who is he? 419 00:20:27,690 --> 00:20:30,030 Who is Jesus Christ? 420 00:20:31,790 --> 00:20:34,910 I make the sad statement and I've spent 421 00:20:34,910 --> 00:20:37,650 my life saying it and I believe it 422 00:20:37,650 --> 00:20:39,870 whether it's so or not and I'll live 423 00:20:39,870 --> 00:20:42,030 by it and die by it and take 424 00:20:42,030 --> 00:20:44,550 abuse if I have to and be exiled 425 00:20:44,550 --> 00:20:45,870 if that's the cost. 426 00:20:46,110 --> 00:20:47,050 I face that. 427 00:20:47,830 --> 00:20:51,090 This generation of people in churches and out 428 00:20:52,750 --> 00:20:57,030 are total strangers to the Jesus of the 429 00:20:57,030 --> 00:20:57,450 Bible. 430 00:20:59,450 --> 00:21:02,870 For the only Jesus that we have any 431 00:21:02,870 --> 00:21:11,310 record of at all is the living Lord 432 00:21:11,310 --> 00:21:15,050 who is Lord of life and that's where 433 00:21:15,050 --> 00:21:16,810 the rebellion comes in. 434 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,740 He's not only alive but he's the absolute 435 00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:25,320 Lord of life and unless he controls your 436 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,220 salt life and your whole life you are 437 00:21:29,220 --> 00:21:32,520 a stranger to faith and the Lord Jesus 438 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:32,980 Christ. 439 00:21:39,550 --> 00:21:45,970 The biggest question you'll ever face is who 440 00:21:45,970 --> 00:21:46,770 is Jesus? 441 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,100 Who is Jesus? 442 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,720 I love that name Brother Bob that is 443 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,400 given to my Lord at his conception. 444 00:21:57,540 --> 00:22:01,320 Thou shall call his name Jesus for he 445 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,980 shall save his people from their sins. 446 00:22:03,980 --> 00:22:12,660 God Emmanuel Jehovah Joshua God our Savior Who 447 00:22:12,660 --> 00:22:17,720 is this Emmanuel whose name shall we call 448 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:23,580 Jesus because he's God with us given a 449 00:22:23,580 --> 00:22:26,700 task to save his people not in but 450 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:29,740 if I owe him from their sins. 451 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:32,520 Well he was born of a virgin didn't 452 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,040 have a human father he lived a life 453 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,320 apart from sin he was crucified on a 454 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,040 Roman gibbet outside the holy city of Jerusalem 455 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,840 he is buried in another man's grave he 456 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,420 is swaddled in another man's clothing perfumed as 457 00:22:54,420 --> 00:22:59,120 body was by spices somebody else furnished he 458 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:04,660 was raised by almighty God he was enthroned 459 00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:07,080 at the right hand of the majesty on 460 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:12,480 high and there he said he must stay 461 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:20,180 and he must reign till every authority everything 462 00:23:20,180 --> 00:23:26,660 in the universe has been brought into subjection 463 00:23:26,660 --> 00:23:31,700 to him that's who this Jesus is and 464 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:33,720 salvation we're going to try to find out 465 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,900 Tuesday night is not believing these things but 466 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:45,420 being vitally joined in saving faith to this 467 00:23:45,420 --> 00:23:50,180 Jesus to where he's the vine and you're 468 00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:56,850 the branch to where you can sing he's 469 00:23:56,850 --> 00:24:01,650 the lily of the valley he's the bright 470 00:24:01,650 --> 00:24:07,030 and morning star he's the fairest of ten 471 00:24:07,030 --> 00:24:11,850 thousand everybody ought to know who Jesus is 472 00:24:11,850 --> 00:24:15,170 to where he's the lover of your soul 473 00:24:16,630 --> 00:24:19,150 to where you can read the book of 474 00:24:19,150 --> 00:24:22,510 Solomon and make it yours oh where is 475 00:24:22,510 --> 00:24:28,010 my beloved where can I find him to 476 00:24:28,010 --> 00:24:31,590 where you can read the deepest spiritual men 477 00:24:31,590 --> 00:24:34,390 of the book of Psalms early in the 478 00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:41,130 morning will I seek thee my soul thirsteth 479 00:24:41,130 --> 00:24:46,150 for thee the living God that's the language 480 00:24:46,150 --> 00:24:52,770 of somebody who's been married to the living 481 00:24:52,770 --> 00:24:58,220 Lord and they're not about to get a 482 00:24:58,220 --> 00:25:03,880 divorce or become adulterers and friends of this 483 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:10,060 world system that did him to death cause 484 00:25:10,060 --> 00:25:12,880 they found him as the lover of their 485 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:22,390 soul in the book of Matthew chapter 16 486 00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:26,890 my Lord always anxious that folks that know 487 00:25:26,890 --> 00:25:28,930 whom they were talking to and with whom 488 00:25:28,930 --> 00:25:32,870 they were dealing he said to his disciples 489 00:25:32,870 --> 00:25:37,170 what are folks saying about me whom do 490 00:25:37,170 --> 00:25:43,970 men say that I am and Peter always 491 00:25:43,970 --> 00:25:45,750 spoke up you know and he said well 492 00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:47,970 it's in you folks are talking about you 493 00:25:48,690 --> 00:25:52,330 and they say that you, some of them 494 00:25:52,330 --> 00:25:56,130 say you Isaiah and some say you Jeremiah 495 00:25:56,130 --> 00:25:59,310 and some Elijah and some they don't know 496 00:25:59,310 --> 00:26:02,090 just exactly they can't pinpoint it but they 497 00:26:02,090 --> 00:26:05,890 say you are you are perfect now that's 498 00:26:05,890 --> 00:26:10,370 as high as any human being can speak 499 00:26:10,370 --> 00:26:16,930 of Jesus Christ apart apart from God the 500 00:26:16,930 --> 00:26:23,910 Holy Spirit revealing in and to you as 501 00:26:23,910 --> 00:26:26,770 he did the apostle Paul who Jesus is 502 00:26:26,770 --> 00:26:29,890 that's as high as you can go and 503 00:26:29,890 --> 00:26:32,910 that's that's as high as the average church 504 00:26:32,910 --> 00:26:35,130 member has ever gone he's a great prophet 505 00:26:35,130 --> 00:26:39,390 said some mighty fine things this world would 506 00:26:39,390 --> 00:26:41,830 be so much better off if we pay 507 00:26:41,830 --> 00:26:44,630 some attention to the golden rule the great 508 00:26:44,630 --> 00:26:50,640 teachings of this man Jesus but man cannot 509 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:56,000 the scriptures say by searching find God and 510 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,200 so the Lord Jesus Christ said well since 511 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,560 that's what the people are saying that's as 512 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,680 much as they can say no man can 513 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,860 call Jesus Lord except by the Spirit 1 514 00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:14,720 Corinthians 12 and 3, impossible whom do ye 515 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,920 say that I the son of man am 516 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,840 the Lord said and Peter said thou art 517 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:26,320 the Messiah Christ means Messiah the anointed one 518 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,940 the sent one to Israel thou art the 519 00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:36,880 Messiah the Christ the son of the living 520 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:42,880 God that's the question he asked the Pharisees 521 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,960 over there whose son is this Christ they 522 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,280 said he's David's son well he said how 523 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,100 come David calls him Lord if that's all 524 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:55,620 there is to it and now he asked 525 00:27:55,620 --> 00:27:58,840 the disciples since men say I'm just a 526 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,660 prophet that's as high as they can go 527 00:28:00,660 --> 00:28:03,280 what do you say about it and they 528 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,440 said thou art the Messiah the son of 529 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,640 the living God and the Lord said hath 530 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,320 they art thou Simon son of John for 531 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,200 flesh and blood hath not revealed the son 532 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:22,220 to thee but thy father which is in 533 00:28:22,220 --> 00:28:28,300 heaven you see when we got to telling 534 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:31,480 men that they got saved by deciding for 535 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,600 Christ we became butchers of souls for men 536 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:41,480 decision for Christ not worth a dime it's 537 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:45,760 God's revelation of Christ to a man that's 538 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:53,940 salvation that's salvation my Lord said you disciples 539 00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:57,360 didn't find out who I am by going 540 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:02,220 to school you found out who I am 541 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,280 by God revealing me to you and that's 542 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,740 the way people get saved now I'll fight 543 00:29:11,740 --> 00:29:16,580 you about that I'll fight you about that 544 00:29:16,580 --> 00:29:19,880 I'm going to look in the face and 545 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,760 tell you you ought to cut out this 546 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,940 butchering of souls I'm telling you that a 547 00:29:25,940 --> 00:29:31,180 man Christ Jesus must be made real to 548 00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:35,720 the inmost being of a human being that's 549 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:42,060 what salvation is that's what my Lord that's 550 00:29:42,060 --> 00:29:45,300 how he said these disciples found out who 551 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:48,960 he is I would if I could and 552 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,320 this is not pious preaching I've been in 553 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,620 it too long for that foolishness I have 554 00:29:54,620 --> 00:29:57,420 many more layers left if the Lord tarries 555 00:29:57,420 --> 00:30:01,160 but under God if I knew how that 556 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,680 you stomp on my body if you'd throw 557 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,460 that little old decision of yours away and 558 00:30:07,460 --> 00:30:11,380 if you'd start the search see if God 559 00:30:11,380 --> 00:30:14,720 would make Jesus Christ and all his glory 560 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,260 real to you until you could sing the 561 00:30:19,260 --> 00:30:21,900 old songs of the cross they wanted to 562 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:28,300 cross when my Savior died see that you 563 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:35,740 could sing majestic sweetness sitting there until these 564 00:30:35,740 --> 00:30:38,500 things would not be something to argue about 565 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:44,360 but something to worship and adore him until 566 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:49,960 the one big real thing in your experience 567 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,340 is that God Almighty has taken the scales 568 00:30:54,340 --> 00:30:57,480 off your eyes as you sought him taken 569 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,280 the wax out of your ears and made 570 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:07,700 Jesus Christ the enthroned Christ who sits on 571 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:11,580 a throne and waited through a pool of 572 00:31:11,580 --> 00:31:16,600 his own life blood to get there until 573 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,560 he'd be real to you and you could 574 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:29,370 say he's mine and I'm his I was 575 00:31:29,370 --> 00:31:31,030 a chaplain a little while in the second 576 00:31:31,030 --> 00:31:34,090 world war your little decisions they went out 577 00:31:34,090 --> 00:31:35,850 the wind in two weeks that's the boy 578 00:31:35,850 --> 00:31:40,290 got away from church and mama that's right 579 00:31:41,910 --> 00:31:44,010 I know what I'm talking about the Christian 580 00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:46,470 boys in the camp of thirty thousand men 581 00:31:46,470 --> 00:31:48,390 would follow me around like a little dog 582 00:31:48,390 --> 00:31:51,950 would his master the so lonesome and so 583 00:31:51,950 --> 00:31:54,170 beaten and whipped in the midst of Baptists 584 00:31:54,170 --> 00:31:58,050 and Presbyterians and Methodists and Catholics and this 585 00:31:58,050 --> 00:31:59,550 that and the other who made a little 586 00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:03,090 decision called it salvation but Jesus wasn't real 587 00:32:03,090 --> 00:32:06,130 to them and I'm telling you now that 588 00:32:06,130 --> 00:32:08,510 you're living in a day when all hell's 589 00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:11,770 popping loose and nothing except the real thing 590 00:32:11,770 --> 00:32:14,110 is going to get the job done and 591 00:32:14,110 --> 00:32:17,370 I say the biggest sin a human being 592 00:32:17,370 --> 00:32:20,210 can ever face is to find out who 593 00:32:20,210 --> 00:32:24,950 Jesus is and it ain't real to you 594 00:32:24,950 --> 00:32:28,430 all the glory of his person and the 595 00:32:28,430 --> 00:32:32,310 splendor of his work when he laid down 596 00:32:32,310 --> 00:32:36,110 his life on a bloody cross who is 597 00:32:36,110 --> 00:32:45,270 Jesus who is Jesus where is he he's 598 00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:49,490 on God's throne and ladies and gentlemen he 599 00:32:49,490 --> 00:32:54,920 changes everything he touches and if there's one 600 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,020 scandal of what we call Christendom today it's 601 00:32:58,020 --> 00:33:05,920 unchanged lives nice creeds orthodoxes all get out 602 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,900 but not transformed as they sang this morning 603 00:33:12,140 --> 00:33:17,500 but the only Jesus who took his men 604 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:22,420 and dynamite flows from him into them is 605 00:33:22,420 --> 00:33:28,100 the living Lord and if your life hadn't 606 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:32,260 been changed with a change that kept on 607 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:35,680 changing you day by day and will keep 608 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,240 on changing you until you're conformed to the 609 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,320 image of Christ you've never touched the Lord 610 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:54,630 and you're not saved that's so there are 611 00:33:54,630 --> 00:33:57,070 three things that are settled about who Jesus 612 00:33:57,070 --> 00:34:01,190 is he's your Lord whether you like it 613 00:34:01,190 --> 00:34:04,310 or not God made him Lord there's a 614 00:34:04,310 --> 00:34:06,950 second thing that's been settled about who Jesus 615 00:34:06,950 --> 00:34:09,909 is he's the one who will save you 616 00:34:09,909 --> 00:34:14,010 or damn you he will save you or 617 00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:16,670 damn you, he's been given that job you 618 00:34:18,489 --> 00:34:21,690 do not have the privilege of deciding whether 619 00:34:21,690 --> 00:34:25,130 you'll accept him or reject him you do 620 00:34:25,130 --> 00:34:28,389 have something to say about when you'll accept 621 00:34:28,389 --> 00:34:33,570 him or accept him you must he'll make 622 00:34:33,570 --> 00:34:41,650 you it's settled that you will receive him 623 00:34:41,650 --> 00:34:46,290 as Lord in the New Testament, let me 624 00:34:46,290 --> 00:34:49,650 give you two or three statistics in the 625 00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:52,830 entire New Testament Jesus Christ is called Savior 626 00:34:52,830 --> 00:35:00,090 24 times he's called Lord 520 times must 627 00:35:00,090 --> 00:35:04,310 be some significance in that he's called Lord 628 00:35:04,310 --> 00:35:09,570 Jesus Christ 81 times 24 times he's called 629 00:35:09,570 --> 00:35:14,450 Savior 520 times he's called Lord 81 times 630 00:35:14,450 --> 00:35:17,410 he's called the Lord Jesus Christ in the 631 00:35:17,410 --> 00:35:18,990 book of Acts that's where we learn how 632 00:35:18,990 --> 00:35:21,430 to preach we're to preach like the Apostles 633 00:35:21,430 --> 00:35:24,430 did we're to preach the truth like they 634 00:35:24,430 --> 00:35:27,030 did if we can we're to preach the 635 00:35:27,030 --> 00:35:30,170 same Jesus that the Apostles preached and their 636 00:35:30,170 --> 00:35:33,650 sermons are recorded every one of them in 637 00:35:33,650 --> 00:35:34,910 the book of Acts, is that right? 638 00:35:34,970 --> 00:35:38,450 all the recorded sermons we have of the 639 00:35:38,450 --> 00:35:43,090 Apostles in the book of Acts and they 640 00:35:43,590 --> 00:35:46,950 mention the fact that he's now the Lord 641 00:35:48,250 --> 00:35:52,350 520 times he's the Lord Jesus Christ 81 642 00:35:52,350 --> 00:35:56,110 times he's Savior 24 times in the entire 643 00:35:56,110 --> 00:35:57,850 book, and in the book of Acts I'm 644 00:35:57,850 --> 00:36:01,090 sorry, he's called Savior only twice, and both 645 00:36:01,090 --> 00:36:03,890 times that refers to the Father and he's 646 00:36:03,890 --> 00:36:07,370 called Lord 92 times in the book of 647 00:36:07,370 --> 00:36:10,510 Acts now there's some meaning, I don't know 648 00:36:10,510 --> 00:36:12,430 how on earth you Bible professors and us 649 00:36:12,430 --> 00:36:14,630 Baptists come in trying to get people to 650 00:36:14,630 --> 00:36:18,850 accept Jesus as Savior the New Testament preachers 651 00:36:18,850 --> 00:36:20,750 didn't ask anybody to take him as Savior 652 00:36:21,470 --> 00:36:24,390 they said surrender to him as Lord, and 653 00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:29,210 as your Lord he saves you by establishing 654 00:36:29,210 --> 00:36:33,530 his blessed rule in your life that's what 655 00:36:33,530 --> 00:36:42,830 salvation is there are three things about preaching 656 00:36:42,830 --> 00:36:47,570 Jesus Christ where he is now the enthroned 657 00:36:47,570 --> 00:36:54,770 living Lord and Lord of life absolute desperate 658 00:36:54,770 --> 00:36:57,470 of your life you say you must bring 659 00:36:57,470 --> 00:36:59,750 all your thoughts into captivity to him, do 660 00:36:59,750 --> 00:36:59,930 you? 661 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,940 how come you claim to be a Christian 662 00:37:03,940 --> 00:37:05,620 if you don't? 663 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:08,040 why don't you quick listen to these fool 664 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,460 preachers that are after your dollar and don't 665 00:37:10,460 --> 00:37:17,390 give a hoot for your soul everything must 666 00:37:17,390 --> 00:37:22,910 be brought unto him everything now honey that 667 00:37:22,910 --> 00:37:25,910 will keep you out of meanness we could 668 00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:28,130 have some prayer meetings in our churches if 669 00:37:28,130 --> 00:37:30,610 we had some gospel, but you dear folks 670 00:37:30,610 --> 00:37:32,950 you never have to repent because you don't 671 00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:36,330 know nothing about Jesus man you face the 672 00:37:36,330 --> 00:37:40,650 implications of the absolute totalitarian rule of Jesus 673 00:37:40,650 --> 00:37:42,690 Christ that he's got a right to in 674 00:37:42,690 --> 00:37:45,450 your life and he exercises that right, and 675 00:37:45,450 --> 00:37:46,690 you'll never be able to go to bed 676 00:37:46,690 --> 00:37:49,150 at night without pouring out your hard old 677 00:37:49,150 --> 00:37:52,510 gut, forgive me forgive me, I've sinned I've 678 00:37:52,510 --> 00:37:57,950 fallen so far short it's little fool Jesus 679 00:37:57,950 --> 00:38:00,670 that these preachers have sold this country down 680 00:38:00,670 --> 00:38:03,770 west while you can live just like you 681 00:38:03,770 --> 00:38:07,010 want to, and when the preacher says that 682 00:38:07,010 --> 00:38:09,570 there's no repentance in the bible, it doesn't 683 00:38:09,570 --> 00:38:12,150 have to be repented the next day and 684 00:38:12,150 --> 00:38:14,890 there's no saving exercise there's a faith that 685 00:38:14,890 --> 00:38:16,710 you don't have to exercise it again the 686 00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:19,790 next day and there's no commitment to Christ 687 00:38:19,790 --> 00:38:21,170 that you don't have to do it all 688 00:38:21,170 --> 00:38:23,970 over again tomorrow, and you'll have to do 689 00:38:23,970 --> 00:38:26,110 it a thousand or a hundred times every 690 00:38:26,110 --> 00:38:29,210 day you will because you have to come 691 00:38:29,210 --> 00:38:32,250 to who's running your life you or King 692 00:38:32,250 --> 00:38:36,590 Jesus every decision you make that'll be involved 693 00:38:36,590 --> 00:38:39,190 in it that'll keep you out of meanness 694 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,290 and we could have something beside this stuff 695 00:38:44,290 --> 00:38:47,070 that's a stitch in the nostrils of a 696 00:38:47,070 --> 00:38:50,610 thrice holy God that we call salvation today 697 00:38:50,610 --> 00:38:55,780 there are three things that have been settled 698 00:38:55,780 --> 00:38:57,960 about preaching the truth about him, first I 699 00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,700 repeat it, you're going to bow to him 700 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:02,780 every knee's going to bow second, you can't 701 00:39:02,780 --> 00:39:07,180 win by persuasion and his sweet wooing he 702 00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:10,060 persuades men now he will not force you 703 00:39:10,060 --> 00:39:12,960 but one day he'll put his foot on 704 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,660 your neck and make you bow to his 705 00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:21,860 lordship that's the scripture, you can't win and 706 00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:26,400 then thank God in grace God holds back 707 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:31,110 that day of judgment not willing that any 708 00:39:31,110 --> 00:39:34,230 should perish that's really long suffering and his 709 00:39:34,230 --> 00:39:39,810 delay is coming but demanding that all come 710 00:39:39,810 --> 00:39:44,810 to repentance there the church preached to Jesus 711 00:39:44,810 --> 00:39:53,700 who's the lord of life, he is born 712 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:59,060 a virgin he's crucified on a tree he 713 00:39:59,060 --> 00:40:02,480 is raised from the dead and they said 714 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:09,100 salvation being united to him who is he? 715 00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:13,840 he's the enthroned prime minister of God's world 716 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,700 who is he? 717 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:18,980 he's the one who has the crown rights 718 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:25,460 to your life he's the one to whom 719 00:40:25,460 --> 00:40:31,520 every knee will one day bow every tongue 720 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,760 will one day confess he's the son of 721 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:43,200 God's love this day said the angel to 722 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,760 the shepherd the Lord is born in the 723 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:54,480 city of Jerusalem a savior who is Christ 724 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:59,880 the Lord who is the blessed savior he's 725 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:05,000 the lord of glory he's the enthroned son 726 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:12,500 of God he's the son of Jesus the 727 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:19,340 enthroned Jesus and there is none other name 728 00:41:19,340 --> 00:41:25,860 unto heaven given among men whereby we must 729 00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:34,000 be saved Jesus is the sweetest name I 730 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,620 know and he's just the same as his 731 00:41:39,620 --> 00:41:43,420 lovely name and that's the reason why I 732 00:41:43,420 --> 00:41:49,780 love him so Jesus is the sweetest name 733 00:41:49,780 --> 00:41:56,430 I know the preaching of the Jesus of 734 00:41:56,430 --> 00:42:01,290 the bible strikes at the very heart of 735 00:42:01,290 --> 00:42:06,470 man's fallen condition you can do as we've 736 00:42:06,470 --> 00:42:09,510 had in the last 60 years preach a 737 00:42:09,510 --> 00:42:16,090 divided Jesus preach a part of his work 738 00:42:16,090 --> 00:42:19,510 as God's priest we don't even preach all 739 00:42:19,510 --> 00:42:21,670 that we don't make any reference much these 740 00:42:21,670 --> 00:42:25,090 days what to call the gospel to the 741 00:42:25,090 --> 00:42:30,700 present intercession of the Lord but we don't 742 00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:32,940 pay great attention to his teaching he was 743 00:42:32,940 --> 00:42:36,900 God's prophet you know and if you do 744 00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:39,340 not live by his teaching you're silly to 745 00:42:39,340 --> 00:42:45,420 talk about being Christian and then we don't 746 00:42:45,420 --> 00:42:47,480 pay attention to the fact that he's on 747 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:52,300 the throne, God's absolute Lord God made him 748 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,420 and you folks go, oh he saved man! 749 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,860 well who's me, he hadn't saved your sauce 750 00:43:01,860 --> 00:43:05,800 he hadn't he doesn't save your daily walk 751 00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:09,100 huh? 752 00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:16,390 he hadn't fixed you so that every day 753 00:43:16,390 --> 00:43:23,570 is a day of repentance and faith and 754 00:43:23,570 --> 00:43:28,680 that kind of salvation is no good but 755 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,760 when you preach that Christ Jesus the enthroned 756 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:37,540 Christ he was in Mary's womb he's not 757 00:43:37,540 --> 00:43:40,560 there now he did walk here on the 758 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,020 earth he doesn't do that now he was 759 00:43:44,020 --> 00:43:47,460 crucified he's not on that cross now he 760 00:43:47,460 --> 00:43:50,000 was put in another man's tomb grave but 761 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,740 he's not there now he's on God's throne 762 00:43:56,850 --> 00:44:02,460 and God's turned everything over to him and 763 00:44:02,460 --> 00:44:06,480 he's the only one that's got rights to 764 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:12,380 control you absolutely if I ordered you around 765 00:44:12,380 --> 00:44:14,400 you'd run me out of town but that's 766 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,780 exactly what Jesus does he is the totalitarian 767 00:44:18,780 --> 00:44:23,080 dictator and he's got a right to order 768 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,600 you around he bought you with his blood 769 00:44:27,940 --> 00:44:33,500 and he exercises that right and I can't 770 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:35,740 call half a dozen names here I'm bad 771 00:44:35,740 --> 00:44:38,400 about remembering names but there's one thing I 772 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,620 know about every last one of you myself 773 00:44:40,620 --> 00:44:49,480 included your reaction to authority is the best 774 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,500 index to the kind of person you are 775 00:44:53,460 --> 00:44:55,940 and I know that you were born I'm 776 00:44:55,940 --> 00:45:01,300 shaking the very word and I know that 777 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:05,360 you were born a rebel against the authority 778 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:10,280 of God and I know that you rebelled 779 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,700 against God's authority in the Garden of Eden 780 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:16,620 and on Golgotha's hill when you have murdered 781 00:45:16,620 --> 00:45:21,740 God in the flesh and refused to receive 782 00:45:21,740 --> 00:45:25,820 him and I know that that nature that's 783 00:45:25,820 --> 00:45:30,620 yours hates the very mention of authority and 784 00:45:33,850 --> 00:45:36,710 I know that salvation is to have the 785 00:45:36,710 --> 00:45:41,230 authority the sovereign rule the authority of almighty 786 00:45:41,230 --> 00:45:45,530 God in Christ reestablished in your life that's 787 00:45:45,530 --> 00:45:48,870 what salvation is and I know that a 788 00:45:48,870 --> 00:45:53,110 Christian is happy to be under the rule 789 00:45:53,110 --> 00:45:57,290 of Jesus Christ and everybody else hates the 790 00:45:57,290 --> 00:46:01,130 very mention of it and the preaching of 791 00:46:01,130 --> 00:46:05,470 the Jesus of the Bible will stir up 792 00:46:05,470 --> 00:46:08,510 rebellion I wish the spirit of God come 793 00:46:08,510 --> 00:46:10,430 on me, I guess he won't I don't 794 00:46:10,430 --> 00:46:14,170 have enough power to scare a flea not 795 00:46:14,170 --> 00:46:17,330 a preacher living, got any power God help 796 00:46:17,330 --> 00:46:20,250 us if you are alright I wish you'd 797 00:46:20,250 --> 00:46:23,190 pray for me before I die let's preach 798 00:46:23,190 --> 00:46:26,830 one sermon in the anointing of the Holy 799 00:46:26,830 --> 00:46:30,550 Spirit where you nice people would get you 800 00:46:30,550 --> 00:46:33,810 a shotgun try to kill God if you 801 00:46:33,810 --> 00:46:37,390 couldn't get to him you'd kill me or 802 00:46:37,390 --> 00:46:40,170 you'd repent and bow to my blessed Lord 803 00:46:41,070 --> 00:46:43,710 we're not killing preachers now and we're not 804 00:46:43,710 --> 00:46:46,510 bowing to Jesus God help us we're in 805 00:46:46,510 --> 00:46:50,750 an awful shape but the gospel is the 806 00:46:50,750 --> 00:46:54,690 announcement of the rule of God in Jesus 807 00:46:54,690 --> 00:47:03,280 Christ that's what it is the preaching of 808 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,000 the Lordship of Christ will get results, will 809 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,740 get people off the fence wouldn't you love 810 00:47:09,740 --> 00:47:13,580 to see it brother pastor I would I 811 00:47:13,580 --> 00:47:15,700 wish they'd go to burning bridges around here, 812 00:47:15,740 --> 00:47:17,700 they wouldn't bother me much I'm too skinny 813 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,640 I wish they'd go to throwing bombs at 814 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,860 our church buildings but see we haven't got 815 00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:29,720 enough on the ball, they don't riot and 816 00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:31,220 try to tear up our church buildings, we're 817 00:47:31,220 --> 00:47:34,700 not bothering anybody they had riots out in 818 00:47:34,700 --> 00:47:39,020 Chicago they was trying to shoot at the 819 00:47:39,020 --> 00:47:42,920 president and all that you know we don't 820 00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,920 stir enough interest, ain't nobody mad at us 821 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,880 they just ignore us wouldn't you love to 822 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:55,620 see it so that people were far against 823 00:47:55,620 --> 00:48:00,990 the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ and 824 00:48:00,990 --> 00:48:05,390 they'd either curse him and say away with 825 00:48:05,390 --> 00:48:10,610 him or like the centurion who watched my 826 00:48:10,610 --> 00:48:18,630 Lord on a cross surely this man was 827 00:48:18,630 --> 00:48:23,100 the son of God I served a little 828 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:26,360 while as a chaplain in World War II 829 00:48:27,990 --> 00:48:30,790 boy you talk about having a big time 830 00:48:33,430 --> 00:48:44,270 I was in one trouble after another leg 831 00:48:45,030 --> 00:48:51,050 major general commander of the camp 30,000 832 00:48:51,050 --> 00:48:56,910 young cadets and a supervisor chaplain, a lieutenant 833 00:48:56,910 --> 00:49:00,170 colonel they were both Roman Catholics every Saturday 834 00:49:00,170 --> 00:49:02,250 night they'd get drunk together down at the 835 00:49:02,250 --> 00:49:05,230 country club and when they get good and 836 00:49:05,230 --> 00:49:07,790 drunk they'd sit there and curse me and 837 00:49:07,790 --> 00:49:10,590 figure out ways to deal with me I 838 00:49:10,590 --> 00:49:12,150 had to have the chief of chaplains come 839 00:49:12,150 --> 00:49:14,110 down five times while I was in the 840 00:49:14,110 --> 00:49:20,250 army to meet her to act as mediator 841 00:49:21,170 --> 00:49:23,010 they'd tell me I couldn't do this and 842 00:49:23,010 --> 00:49:24,590 I'd go ahead and do it you know 843 00:49:24,590 --> 00:49:27,810 and then I'd get in trouble and we 844 00:49:27,810 --> 00:49:29,530 had more fun than a barrel of books 845 00:49:30,410 --> 00:49:33,150 I'd pass out tracts and they detailed two 846 00:49:33,150 --> 00:49:35,750 book privates the Catholics did to go around 847 00:49:35,750 --> 00:49:37,230 and pick up all the tracts for anybody 848 00:49:37,230 --> 00:49:40,970 to read and I'd preach the gospel and 849 00:49:40,970 --> 00:49:42,910 that's against the law in the army they 850 00:49:42,910 --> 00:49:46,330 warned you to tell the boys how to 851 00:49:46,330 --> 00:49:49,410 hold their liquor and how to have sexual 852 00:49:49,410 --> 00:49:53,770 intercourse without contracting venereal disease they instructed you 853 00:49:53,770 --> 00:49:56,890 boy how to do that did you know 854 00:49:56,890 --> 00:50:00,670 that and they wanted me to when a 855 00:50:00,670 --> 00:50:02,350 boy came to offer him a cigarette and 856 00:50:02,350 --> 00:50:04,070 a drink of whiskey you know and get 857 00:50:04,070 --> 00:50:06,110 him to feeling good and then counsel him 858 00:50:06,110 --> 00:50:08,650 to be a good little boy and all 859 00:50:08,650 --> 00:50:11,770 that tomfoolery oh I had more fun than 860 00:50:11,770 --> 00:50:14,570 a barrel of monkeys that supervisor chaplain said 861 00:50:14,570 --> 00:50:16,310 you give us more hell than all the 862 00:50:16,310 --> 00:50:18,510 other hundred and ninety chaplains I got under 863 00:50:18,510 --> 00:50:20,290 me he said you're just in one mess 864 00:50:20,290 --> 00:50:22,670 after another he said why can't you be 865 00:50:22,670 --> 00:50:25,070 a human he said then he said a 866 00:50:25,070 --> 00:50:26,870 soldier got to have a quart of liquor 867 00:50:26,870 --> 00:50:29,170 and a blonde every Saturday night to make 868 00:50:29,170 --> 00:50:33,310 life worth living that's religion for you and 869 00:50:33,310 --> 00:50:38,840 that ain't confined to Catholicism either I had 870 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,140 a Jewish chaplain on that field he was 871 00:50:41,140 --> 00:50:43,940 an Orthodox Jew he was a fine gentleman 872 00:50:43,940 --> 00:50:45,860 the only time he ever touched liquor was 873 00:50:45,860 --> 00:50:48,920 when they had a marriage sober as an 874 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,920 owl clean minded never told a dirty joke 875 00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,560 never used God's name in vain as honorable 876 00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,420 and decent as he could be and he 877 00:50:57,420 --> 00:50:59,660 always scotched for me when the chief of 878 00:50:59,660 --> 00:51:02,420 chaplains had come down he'd take my side 879 00:51:02,420 --> 00:51:04,820 and tell the chief of chaplains the truth 880 00:51:04,820 --> 00:51:07,820 about what's going on and I'd help him 881 00:51:07,820 --> 00:51:10,580 out some and we got to be buddies 882 00:51:11,260 --> 00:51:13,740 and the post chaplain in Bosnia and the 883 00:51:13,740 --> 00:51:16,180 Army you'll explain over these terms the post 884 00:51:16,180 --> 00:51:19,760 chaplain was a unitarian and he had his 885 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:21,740 office up in the front of the little 886 00:51:21,740 --> 00:51:24,120 chapel I was in and I was back 887 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,360 yonder and the Jewish chaplain there, that's just 888 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,420 one of many chapels of course on the 889 00:51:28,420 --> 00:51:33,420 post and this Jewish chaplain despised the guy 890 00:51:33,420 --> 00:51:36,420 in the front office he said it's not 891 00:51:36,420 --> 00:51:39,560 even decent for him to claim to be 892 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,380 a Christian because he does not believe that 893 00:51:43,380 --> 00:51:47,900 Jesus is the Son of God and God 894 00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:52,440 the Son and the Jewish chaplain who carried 895 00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,040 a New Testament in his pocket and read 896 00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,800 out of it every day and said I'm 897 00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,220 coming more and more to believe that Jesus 898 00:52:01,220 --> 00:52:05,260 was as great a teacher and prophet as 899 00:52:05,260 --> 00:52:07,940 Moses and that's something for an orthodox Jew 900 00:52:08,940 --> 00:52:12,200 and that Jewish chaplain would say to me 901 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:21,340 chaplain if I could believe that Jesus is 902 00:52:21,340 --> 00:52:27,840 what the New Testament said he is I'd 903 00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:32,200 fall at his feet and I'd worship him 904 00:52:33,220 --> 00:52:36,180 and I'd serve him till the day I 905 00:52:36,180 --> 00:52:41,500 die and so will you if you ever 906 00:52:41,500 --> 00:52:46,840 come to where you deep down inside of 907 00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,560 you actually can believe the testimony of this 908 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,000 book where Jesus he's the Son of God 909 00:52:55,780 --> 00:53:01,120 where Jesus very man very God where Jesus 910 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:05,860 God the Son where Jesus then told prime 911 00:53:05,860 --> 00:53:09,120 minister got there by way of a bloody 912 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:14,700 cross where Jesus God manifested the flesh where 913 00:53:14,700 --> 00:53:19,940 Jesus great without controversy great is the mystery 914 00:53:19,940 --> 00:53:24,140 of God where this God was manifest God 915 00:53:24,140 --> 00:53:28,760 was manifest in the flesh where Jesus he's 916 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,000 the savior of men and women who are 917 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:38,040 joined to him he saves men by establishing 918 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:45,100 establishing God's rule in their lives hallelujah what 919 00:53:45,100 --> 00:53:51,180 a savior men and women need to seek 920 00:53:51,180 --> 00:53:57,980 faith who is Jesus Peter says in Acts 921 00:53:57,980 --> 00:54:02,740 chapter 5 that God exalted him and made 922 00:54:02,740 --> 00:54:09,760 him what a prince, a sovereign and a 923 00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:17,120 savior for to give repentance and forgiveness of 924 00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:23,960 sins seek him cry to God that he'll 925 00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,640 wrap and take the steel from off your 926 00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:32,440 eyes that you get a glimpse of the 927 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:39,980 Son of the living God that salvation our 928 00:54:39,980 --> 00:54:44,040 Father in blood stained Jesus name he who 929 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,100 yonder reigns and the mark of the nail 930 00:54:47,100 --> 00:54:50,420 still in his hands the mark of that 931 00:54:50,420 --> 00:54:54,500 crown of thorns still on his brow the 932 00:54:54,500 --> 00:54:59,160 lovely Lord in his blessed name we bring 933 00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:04,040 this congregation to him pray that in mercy 934 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:11,450 he'll deal with us for his sake I'm 935 00:55:11,450 --> 00:55:13,130 going to ask you to stand and sing 936 00:55:13,130 --> 00:55:21,330 my favorite song number 707 Brother King 707 937 00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:26,730 pass me not O gentle Savior hear my 938 00:55:26,730 --> 00:55:31,390 humble cry while on others thou art calling 939 00:55:32,850 --> 00:55:38,180 do not pass me by men are locked 940 00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:41,660 up in death row they're not going to 941 00:55:41,660 --> 00:55:46,900 be condemned already they're locked up in a 942 00:55:46,900 --> 00:55:54,200 cell and they don't have the key Jesus 943 00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,960 Christ got the key he can set you 944 00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:04,530 free while he walks down by that cell 945 00:56:04,530 --> 00:56:10,460 where you're locked up begin to cry out 946 00:56:10,460 --> 00:56:17,320 to him Savior Savior hear my humble cry 947 00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:20,820 while you're stuck at that cell, unlock that 948 00:56:20,820 --> 00:56:22,960 door and let that prisoner out, set him 949 00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,700 free come on down to my cell if 950 00:56:25,700 --> 00:56:34,920 you will set me free set me 951 00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:49,460 free better stand and sing it I'm 952 00:56:49,460 --> 00:56:53,620 going to ask you to stand and sing 953 00:56:53,620 --> 00:56:59,160 my favorite song 707 Brother King pass me 954 00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:04,460 not O gentle Savior while on others thou 955 00:57:04,460 --> 00:57:12,180 art calling do not pass me by 956 00:57:12,180 --> 00:57:17,380 men are locked up they're not going to 957 00:57:17,380 --> 00:57:37,720 be condemned Last 958 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:41,100 Lord's Day, I had the privilege of being 959 00:57:41,100 --> 00:57:44,920 in a Baptist congregation down in my state 960 00:57:46,100 --> 00:57:49,740 where the Lord has bested the people and 961 00:57:49,740 --> 00:57:51,760 people are coming to the Lord by the 962 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:55,680 droves and I got to preach to the 963 00:57:56,990 --> 00:58:00,990 29 men and a lot of women and 964 00:58:00,990 --> 00:58:03,970 children said the Lord