My name is Richard, and the question I
would like to discuss with you is a
certain point we discussed before, and if you
follow me back, we discussed this one, 3
.6. It just goes back to the Scripture,
you get it?
And that we are seen, we have this
ministry, as we receive mercy, we think not.
But having renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
not working with craftiness, not handling the word
of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the
truth, commending ourselves for every man's confidence in
the sight of God, let our gospel be
healed.
It is given to them that are lost.
Even the God of this world has blinded
the minds of them which believe not.
Lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them.
But we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
the Lord.
And also as your servants, but He's the
Savior.
For God, who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness, has shined in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ.
There's a concept that Satan has blinded the
minds of men who believe not.
Yes, he didn't blind the minds.
They have experienced the power
coming from the Bible, coming from the Bible
itself.
And very many women today, they have the
knowledge of the glory of God.
And they find that knowledge, and they see
that knowledge, they see that glory in the
face of Jesus Christ.
That contrasted with Paul saying to the people
lying around the city of Corinth that I've
experienced what we call salvation.
And he said, you know what happened to
us?
All the minds of us, we saw the
same God.
The way that candle lit that day to
light, and the light of that same God,
has shined in our hearts.
Paul says that's what it means to be
a Christian.
To be a Christian is somebody who's seen
the glory of God.
He's seen it in the face of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
You haven't even seen the glory of God
in the face of Christ.
It's because God has normalized it today.
It's shined in our hearts.
When we do a blessed thing, those who
have touched the burden from their time, they
don't depart from the religious world.
It takes away some of our man-made
time.
And let this scripture once again tell us
what it means to be a child of
God.
This is one of the most beautiful scriptures
in the Bible.
And that could be explained in a Bible
you haven't experienced.
When you get preached about it in the
Pope, it might be somebody who's had their
eyes opened, staring up.
God, the same God, who turned off the
darkness by turning on the light of the
glory of Himself in the face of Christ,
down in somebody's heart, whether it was darkness
of the life, whether it was misery of
the joy, whether it was gladness of the
peace of the nation.
If you want to see God's glory, there's
one place to see it.
In the face of Jesus Christ.
That is the face of Jesus Christ.
It's the soul of the gospel.
Like I set aside you, and I laid
my feet in you, and I know, as
they came to the picture, of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
And again reading that picture, in the hands
of the Holy Ghost, Christ will become R
-E-A-L, real today.
And they know my spirit.
That means the past, the darkness, in the
light.
Now the man who wrote this passage of
Scripture, wrote it like everyone else he wrote,
it's not the fault, it's part of his
own experience.
From being this man, yet the Lord Jesus
Christ, from the darkness went away, and God
turned on the light.
And this man saw God's glory, he saw
it in the very face, of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Now, In fact
it's 22, and 26 in the first part
of Paul's own description, of the time when
in darkness, you're walking down to Damascus, to
kill off some old Christians.
And they're taking some aspirin, they'll kill a
cold, and they'll take you back to the
safe.
That happened just now.
It was right while I was there.
I was appealing to the Lord, and I
said, I know this is precious, and it
started in my heart, to say this part.
I just want to talk to you a
little while, to know about three things, that
happened just like that.
The first
thing was God.
He gave all the credit to God.
He says, God shined in my heart.
God said, God and theology, all
points to God.
God's testimony means, and that's the last thing
you need, is God.
When God brings somebody to kill, most of
the time, I'll do this, I'll do this.
I'll do the other.
I'll just ask the broken heart, and check
the death rate.
I don't know, I can't say to them,
check the arm, the knees, the aching feet,
and the lungs, I check people, and check
their pain, and check their feet.
I will be out of Damascus, and I
will be religious at all.
Get out.
He said, I was as anxious as it
could be he was.
He said, I have been working myself to
death trying to stamp out this terrible person.
They really talked about the priest in my
day, but that fellow, Jesus, he was the
illegitimate son of a poor old woman.
He was born out of guilt now.
He went around the country making certain claims
and finally the people caught up with him
and gave him just what was coming to
him.
And they took him outside of the city
of Jerusalem, the holy city, and nailed him
to a tree.
They went around their own country claiming that
that person was the living God.
They actually went to Paris to say that
when they buried that fellow, Jesus, he didn't
stay in jail.
That God raised him from the dead.
But the terrible
liar left the face of the earth.
And in the preface of the message tonight,
there was one thing Saul of Tarsus knew
for certain.
He knew that this fellow, Jesus, was not
the same God.
If he could prove that by his scripture,
we'll see that tomorrow.
He said that he was more generous than
the religion of his father, the last disciple
of God.
He was a holy soul, you know.
And he said, I got some letters to
his production, and I was able to tell
you what I knew, because I was able
to tell him that the last disciple of
the religion was from these people of the
land.
He was standing next to a little holy
seat above.
This fellow, Jesus, was alive.
He was God's Lord.
You know, I've walked around the world, said
the words, and
we've heard the words, but we didn't see
the person.
Saul, the
Lord, said, Lord, Lord, you've been a living
machine.
Now they've just matched us.
Lord.
You know, I've gone down to the next
person, and I've seen somebody longer, reading my
instructions.
You believe what I'm about to tell you,
and what happened?
When I said, if you call him, ask
him to.
He said, Saul, the God of your father
hath chosen you to hear
my word.
And if you shall know the word of
God, you are to know it, unless you
have heard it all.
I have chosen you because you see that
blessed one in salvation never comes apart from
seeing Christ.
I have chosen you because you see my
word, my mouth.
Salvation never comes apart from the mouth of
God.
I call that you shall be my witness
from now
on.
Unless you've got something to talk about, a
person you see, that I have seen, in
order to become a Christian, and get to
see a God, and get to hear this
discovery that this Saul of Tarsus did.
In New York, Paul said, all has happened
because the God who commanded love shall be
with us.
One out
of every hundred people in the last few
years has said this in their lives, but
if you were to see it, if you
were to look on the dark face of
your life and attend to it, and go
in and hang on to it all the
time, say this, three million out of every
three people in the world that have seen
the Lord, because of the God who commanded
love, and the God who said, that I
shall be the one whom Christ is going
to love.
I could not say who
the only God in the name of God
is going to be.
It is going to be someone who is
not only a professional, but a seeker, a
believer, with a living faith, and serious heart,
and can feel a feeling of peace and
forgiveness, and joy, and doesn't stand up on
the high road and say, I confess to
be my Lord.
I've got in contact with Him.
I know I've experienced Him.
A prayer for me, all the time, a
love, my family, God, and
my heart.
But I don't want to go back.
So, you see, in the back of it,
the master, in the back of it, there's
a lot of difference between my living and
my death, that could be.
But when I go to the master, the
Supreme Lord, I go to the master, and
say, I hope you've been on the right
side of the road.
And through my entire life, I've been on
the right side of the road, and I
know that I've done it.
I was feeling like I've been to the
presence of the living God.
He was prepared, and
there it's all recorded in this holy book.
Oh, Lord, when you want to get a
glimpse of the glory of God, accept him,
Jesus Christ, in your heart.
And then, I'm going to request that you
don't think that's the one who was in
the world, and the world knew him not.
He came on his own, did his mission,
in his own household, with his brothers and
sisters, and said, the folks didn't know this
man did not.
He came on his own, in his own
household, with his friends and not.
But he knows that he did not.
And then, he was asked to become a
Christian, and God gave him his belief, and
it means, he was born out of the
world, now, in the presence of the living
God.
And so, he came to him and he
said, you know, the good man is here.
Oh, and we thought, ah, did he just
walk in there?
Oh, so he did.
And so, the good man was here.
He was here.
And so, the only
begotten son of the Father, and so, the
kingdom of heaven was saved on the cross
of our Lord.
And so, communion with Christ until the day
of cross signs on
the cross
of our Lord.
in the presence of the living God.
And so, he came to him the good
man is here.
and we thought, ah, begotten son of the
Father, was saved on
the cross of our Lord.
And so, the good man was here.
the day of cross signs on the cross
of our Lord.
And so, the kingdom of heaven was saved
on the cross And so, with Christ If
you don't let down the pressure, you're losing
your experience with the Christ that you're talking
about.
If you don't ever want to be around
the doctors or you don't want to be
around the so-called underlings of the faith,
you're the underling of the faith, you're a
sinner, you're a crown, you're a sick slave,
you're a beggar.
And that's the difficulty that we have to
face now.
If we've got that good sense, if there's
any concern for our soul, we'll think that
nothing matters.
Don't stop the feeling of not believing.
Don't stop the believing of our Christ.
Seek Him in and love Him.
Until you're through with it, you're sure that
you love Him, but you didn't think you
loved Him.
So you found out you loved Him.
I believe with all of my heart.
Believe me, I know I'm one of those
people.
I'm not one of those people.
I believe with all of my heart.
I'm 36 years old, trying to preach the
word of God.
I believe with all of my heart.
What a man or a woman or a
boy or a girl can do.
It's so well thought of to ask the
least of those who fear God.
But what do you believe?
What do you believe?
You can just ask the right question.
And I believe that a man who's got
a Bible will also be enjoined to believe
in Christ today.
If you've got a Bible, that's what you've
got to believe in.
I'm a little bit of an atheist.
And if I could, I'd scream and scream
and scream.
But people don't.
But I am going to say one last
thing.
And when that man left, no other people
from the Jews had mercy.
So when that man returned, there was no
more Jews.
Yes, there were five Jews in the city
of Jerusalem.
And he said that I have written a
scripture, and it would be in the big
language of 21, verses 23 and 23.
And for everything, he said, those people wouldn't
say that it wasn't written in the scripture,
they would say it was.
It didn't have time, and it wouldn't be
a blessing.
And here we are in section 21, verse
22.
This is God's love.
Any man who hath the ability to see
and hear his breath, and he be put
to death, and thou be in him all
children.
Hath he made all men upon the tree,
that thou shalt be made wise for him
that day.
For they do that with shame, including for
everybody that I see, that came out lame,
that Jesus, anybody
that looked death by being hanged on a
tree, with hunger, with thirst, with hunger.
He did not forsake, believe, apart from the
Holy Spirit revealing it to him.
Hath he made all flesh to
die, that's the death of Jesus.
That's the death of all man.
He died to make us all die.
He didn't die to make us all die.
He lived, he lived, he lived, he lived
to make us all die.
He hung on a cross under the curse
of God.
He hung on a cross under the curse
of God.
I think so, and I think God made
you in some place, but
you know, his hands don't belong to you,
but some guys like you don't belong to
me, you know?
God, yeah.
Oh, God, can you hear?
Can you hear what I hear?
The more, the
better, the more you are in love with
the Lord.
You don't
have to be afraid to stand
up and touch the ground.
God is a perfect man.
He gives life, labor, He loves you.
You don't have to be afraid.
God will have you in His hands.