But it's always running head-on into its
parents, who intersect its self-will all the
time.
And the better job the parents do of
intersecting the self-will of the child and
turning it around into righteousness, the better the
child will be, and the more the child
will thank God when they get older.
I have a son who is a lawyer,
and he told me that he was so
grateful to me, grateful to us, my wife
and myself, for our always insisting he ought
to be right about things, always insisting.
He said, there were times when I didn't
like to do it.
He said, I remember when the yearly prom,
whatever that is, I guess it's a dance,
I never went to one at my age,
I don't plan to, but he said when
there'd be graduation and I'd get my diploma
at one of the schools, and then everybody
else would go to the dance and I'd
come home alone.
He said, I'll tell you, that was pretty
hard.
But he said, I'm grateful now, and he
said, when you used to make me go
and pay back things if I took something
that I shouldn't have taken, he said, that
was hard to do, but I'm grateful now.
Now, I believe that our children will thank
us if we stand in the way of
their self-will, and they'll be grateful to
us for all the world and all time
to come that we didn't let them have
their way and let them go on in
their dead ways.
So it is with the Word of God.
The Word of God has crossed my path
many times, and where my path went this
way and the Word of God went this
way and where we crossed, there was trouble,
real trouble and heartache and misery for me,
but I'm very thankful now for it.
I'm glad God didn't let me go the
way I was going.
I'd have been in hell now, but God
in his kindness crossed my path with his
kind words and his severe words and his
certain words, and the words that I could
not negotiate with and that I couldn't in
any way, I couldn't compromise them.
And there they were, living reality, God's Word,
there it stands, living reality.
I'd tell you that if we were to
believe that this book is filled with words
that are not negotiable, words that cannot be
compromised, words that can never be changed, and
that we'd go to this Word and read
it with reverence, its transforming power would be
beyond all understanding and belief.
Men try to deny and cover up and
get away from the Word of God, but
it can't be done.
Well, this revealing Word strips away, strips the
life bare and strips everything away from the
life, and all our deeds are naked and
open.
You know that we are marvelous rationalizers.
We want to do something and then we
rationalize.
That is, we get excuses for wanting to
do what we want to do.
A simple explanation is a man wants to
go to the circus and he has an
eight-year-old boy and so he says
to his wife, I haven't really time, honey,
but I'm sure Junior would love to see
the circus, so off they go.
He wants to see a hockey game and
he hasn't time, but he says to his
wife, I think Junior ought to see once,
so off he goes.
That's rationalizing, that is, having a secret reason
for doing something and then finding a good,
sound, logical reason to support your secret desire.
We find that everywhere.
Men do things and then they excuse themselves
and say, well, this is why I did
it, when deep in their heart they know
it was for some other reason.
The Word of God reveals that and strips
it all away, and the deeds, says the
Scripture, are naked and open, no secrecy, no
dissimulation.
Nothing can cover over this, for the Word
of God reveals there is no deed but
what is known to God, and every word
is a deed.
I was reading this morning in an exposition
of the book of Hebrews by an English
preacher that to the Jews a word was
considered a thing, and when a word was
spoken it was a thing.
You and I consider a word nothing, but
the old Jews believed that when a word
was spoken it was an entity, it had
reality, and when it was once spoken you
had it to deal with.
Our Lord Jesus seemed to teach the same
thing when he said, Every word, every word,
that idle word that men speak they shall
give account of in the day of judgment,
that word will be there, not a breath
but a hard thing, a reality, something of
that to deal with.
And every word is there a deed, and
every deed is there a deed, and every
door is open, and nothing can hinder God
Almighty's eyes from seeing through.
I want to live with those X-ray
eyes seeing through me.
That word persists, I have this to tell
you.
That word persists, and has it not to
do with time, but it doesn't relax its
insistence even at death, but out there where
the dead live again, that word will be
there, and out there where heaven and hell
wait, that word will be there.
The books are open in the book of
the words and the book of deeds and
the book of life.
And our Lord Jesus said, The words that
I speak unto you, the same shall judge
you in the last day.
So those living words will be there, those
persistent, immortal words.
We'll find the word that we tried to
escape from and get away from here, we'll
find it there to judge us in that
day.
But there's a happier side, and I want
to close on that note.
That happier side is that the word of
God, when we're Christians, when we're following the
Lord, when we love his Son, when we're
trying to follow the best we know in
the way that he takes, the word of
God is on our side.
Some years ago I was reading Psalm 71,
and I came to that passage, Thou hast
given commandment to save me, and I broke
down and wrote a poem about it.
I don't intend to quote the poem to
you, because that's one thing I won't do,
quote my own poetry.
But it says, Thou hast given commandment to
save me, said the scriptures, and I wrote
about that, and it warmed my heart, and
my heart has been warm ever since with
the thought of it.
To whom did God give commandment to save
me?
I believe that the word of God has
gone throughout all the earth to save me.
And put that where you please and do
what you will with it theologically, but it
says that he has given commandment to save
me.
When I believed on the Son of God
and turned myself over to him for salvation,
I believed that the word went throughout all
the earth, and I believe there isn't an
angel in heaven that heard it, and I
believe that it was heard by the very
worms that crawl and the very birds that
fly, and the very atoms that make up
our universe, and the very stars that shine
in their courses as they fight for the
ones God loves.
Now, let's give him commandment.
God's word has gone out throughout his whole
world, and his word has picked you out.
If you are a true Christian and say,
Here is one of my Mountaineer members, save
him, keep this man.
Just as God put a mark one time
upon the people in Jerusalem, and just as
God put a hedge around Job, I believe
God puts his living word around his people,
and that we are there and that we
are safe and that there isn't any wild,
stray thing in the universe that can come
leaping through and strike us.
A man can walk across a meadow, and
one chance in several million he can be
struck by lightning and killed.
There is not in anywhere in all God's
mighty universe, neither in space nor time nor
eternity, any stray, uncontrolled stroke of anything that
can take eternal life away from the child
of God that has it.
But God has spoken and said, Thou hast
given commandment to save me, and I believe
in that commandment.
So the word of God gets on your
side.
When the word of God is not on
your side, it can only make you miserable
continually.
But when the word of God is on
your side, it can only keep you continually.
And the living word of God has charged
himself with the responsibility to keep you, to
forgive you, to cleanse you, to perfect that
which concerneth you, and to keep you in
the way everlasting.
He has done this.
So let's not underrate the word.
Let's thank God for the word.
Let's live by the word, for the word
of God is quick, that is, living, and
powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
Neither is there any creature that is not
manifest in his sight, but all things are
naked and open unto the eyes of him
with whom we have to do.
I do not want to leave the impression
that the word of God is a terrible
book, and that we can only approach it
in shivering fear.
That's true only of those who love their
sin and hate their Savior.
But if I hate my sin and love
my Savior, then the word of God is
not a terrible book, but a wonderful book,
and it speaks life to my soul in
protection and cleansing and deliverance and sanctification and
healing to my soul and mind and body.
So let's thank God for the word, and
let's see to it that these summer and
winter days come on now and fall days,
and we have a little more time.
Let's see to it that we get through
the book.
Let's see to it that we read it,
read it and meditate upon it.
George Mueller said he read the Bible through,
was it 50 or 150 times, and then
he added with meditation.
Not simply reading it through, but reading with
meditation.
So let's thank God for the book, for
this book is an inspired book, and its
voice sounds throughout all the world, and it'll
keep us if we're on his side, and
it'll destroy us if we're not.
Common sense and moral wisdom tell us that
we ought to be on the side of
Christ, for all the mighty power of the
living word protects us like a fort and
keeps us and shields us for eternity.
Amen.
This is the end of sermon number 13.
Sermon number 14 to follow.
In the 5th chapter of the book of
Hebrews, the first 10 verses.
For every high priest taken from among men
is ordained for men in things pertaining to
God, that he may offer both gifts and
sacrifices for sins, who can have compassion on
the ignorant and on them that are out
of the way, for that he himself also
is encompassed with infirmity.
And by reason hereof he ought as for
the people, so also for himself to offer
for sins.
No man taketh this honour unto himself, but
he that is called of God, as was
Aaron.
So also Christ glorified not himself to be
made a high priest, but he that said
unto him, Thou art my son, to-day
have I begotten thee, saith also in another
place, Thou art a priest for ever, after
the order of Melchizedek, who in the days
of his flesh, when he offered up prayers
and supplications with strong crying and tears unto
him that was able to save him from
death, and was heard in that he feared,
though he were a son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered.
And being made perfect, he became the author
of eternal salvation unto all them that obey
him, called of God and high priest for
ever, a high priestness which omits forever, after
the order of Melchizedek.
Now one of the major doctrines set forth
in the book of Hebrews is the high
priesthood of the Eternal Son.
It was introduced in chapter 2.17, and
we are told in chapter 3.1 to
consider the apostle and high priest of our
faith, and again it is mentioned in 4
.14. And now in chapters 5, 6 and
7, particularly 5 and 7, it is fully
developed.
What it means is high priesthood as God
ordained it, and the fulfillment of that priesthood
by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, I should talk a little bit about
the ideal of a priesthood, because there are
few things in the whole circle of religion
that gets more abuse and has suffered more
abuse and has been a source of more
abuse than the priesthood.
Every base, unworthy religion to be found throughout
the world has the idea of a priesthood
attached to it, and there are various priestly
rites throughout the various religions of the world
that have offended and shocked mankind.
And the priests themselves have often been corrupt,
cruel and hypocritical.
If you want to get the shock of
your life, you ought to read the story
of the religions of Mexico, held by the
Aztecs and the Toltecs.
Twenty thousand human beings, for instance, were offered
in sacrifice at the dedication of one temple.
Twenty thousand human beings were stretched out on
a slab, alive, and their hearts cut out
with stone axes and offered in sacrifice to
the death God of the Toltecs and the
Aztecs in the olden days in Mexico.
And it is unspeakable what they did, the
evil that they did.
And when you consider that you don't have
to go back very far to find priests
who habitually lie around drunk, you will know
how many abuses have attached themselves to the
idea of the priesthood.
Some have been self-righteous and arrogant, and
many intimidate and exploit their poor people.
And yet the idea of a priesthood was
not thought of first by man, but by
God.
And it is dimly seen in the praying
father of the family who assumes responsibility for
his family, who teaches his family by example
and precept, and who prays for them.
Job was a good example of this.
Job went before God after a party that
his children had had and offered sacrifice, or
at least he prayed and asked God to
forgive them and cleanse them because he was
afraid they might have sinned.
He was a priest to his family.
But it is more clearly set forth in
the Levitical priesthood as shown in Exodus and
Leviticus, and in Numbers and the Old Testament.
And it is set forth in perfection in
Jesus Christ our Lord.
I have said that the idea of the
priesthood, or a priesthood, is ordained by God,
and it must therefore have a need.
And the need for a priesthood arises from
man's alienation from God.
It assumes that man is away from God.
This is an intriguing part of truth, as
hydrogen is a part of water and you
can't have water without hydrogen, so you can't
have Bible truth without the doctrine that man
has broken with God in what the Bible
calls alienation, in the great fall.
And any religion that ignores that man has
fallen and that he is away from God,
that he is like a little island that
has been pulled loose from the continent and
has drifted out to sea and is lost
from the attraction of the continent.
So man has morally pulled away from God
and has pulled himself completely away in fellowship
so that he is said to be alienated
from God and without hope and without God
in the world.
And somebody has to make reconciliation between God
and man to bring them back together again.
And there is where the idea of the
priesthood lies.
Now, even granted that man would return, man
can't return to God because there is that
which is in the way, there is sin
in the way, there has been a moral
breach, there has been a violation of the
laws of God.
Man is a moral criminal before the power
of God.
And until there is satisfaction made, until this
breach is healed, until justice is satisfied, man
can't return to God even if he wanted
to come.
Now this is Bible doctrine, and anything else
is less than Bible doctrine.
If I did not believe this, I would
close my Bible and I would preach from
William Wordsworth or from Shakespeare or Milton.
And you couldn't preach from Milton because he
believed the Bible and wove the Bible into
much of his poetry.
But you know there is a fatal error
among religious people, and that is Christless mysticism,
a kind of nature mysticism.
In the fall of the year it comes
around and we imagine a little man with
a paintbrush outpainting the leaves, and we get
very, very watery-eyed about that time.
And again in the spring when the frogs
begin to make their music in the little
ponds and man's thoughts turn to love and
all this kind of thing the poets tell
us about.
Well, that's very dangerous because if it's crossless
and without redemption and without Christ and without
a proper reconciliation it can be deadly.
Yet there are churches and they spend millions
building those churches and they never hear a
thing year in and year out.
I stopped in Chicago on my way through
here to Toronto from St. Paul.
I had to wait three hours in the
airport to catch the plane here.
One of my boys came out to have
a chat, brought his girlfriend out and we
had a nice chat together, and he is
the only single one of them all.
And he told me this.
He said that a year ago during Keswick
in Chicago that there was an agnostic friend
of his, he's a member and active in
the Presbyterian Church there, that is my son
is, and he said a friend of his
who was an agnostic and a scientist decided
that to please my son he'd come out
to hear me preach at Moody Church, and
he did.
I preached and then I was followed by
the pastor of Calvary Church, Stephen Oldford, so
I don't know which of the two or
both.
But anyway, this scientist sat there, this agnostic
who didn't believe anything and believed that you
couldn't know anything, he sat and he heard
those two sermons.
And then he said to my son, You
know, I'm bowled over, I'm astonished.
I said, Why?
He said, I didn't think preachers ever said
anything.
He said, I never heard a preacher say
anything before.
He said, These two men said something.
And he was greatly moved by the fact
that we'd had something to say.
Well, the upshot of that is, he said,
Now that agnostic scientist has become the tome
heir of the Presbyterian Church.
Can you imagine that?
In just a year's time he's now praying
warrior, leading the rest of them in his
fellowship with God.
That's the difference, and it isn't good preaching,
it's preaching about something good.
There's the difference.
I never have claimed, never in my life
have I claimed to be a good preacher.
But I will take second to nobody in
my desire to preach about good things.
And if you preach about good things, a
man came down to the front, a fine
-looking middle-aged man, after I had preached
on the Lord Jesus, high and lifted up,
and they were asking me to autograph books.
And he came to me and said, I
have no book for you to autograph, you've
written your autograph in my heart.
And I was rather moved by that, because
I hadn't preached good at all, I know.
I hear myself on tape.
But I know I'm preaching about something good,
and that's all the difference in the world.
You see, if a cook is a good
cook, and a cook knows how to cook
good food and wholesome, delicious food and serve
it well, she doesn't have to be a
bathing beauty.
She can just be anything, but you don't
say you're a beautiful bathing beauty, you say
you're a good cook.
And all I claim to be in the
wide world, I serve up good food, and
I talk about God, and that's what's good.
And that's what every preacher ought to do.
He doesn't have to have a voice like
Billy Graham, and very few people do.
That gentle Southern accent of his that charms
people, I don't have it, and very few
people do around the world.
But if they set up good food, they
don't have to look like a Greek God.
And if they provide good truth, they don't
have to preach like Spurgeon.
Anything will be all right.
I remember that a man came up to
Mr. Spurgeon, I believe it was, and said,
I can't preach as well as you, but
I preach about the same Lord you do,
and that's all that's necessary.
So there's danger in the churches of a
crossless Christianity.
And the preacher gets up and talks about
the Great Old Father.
You used to hear them over the radio,
preach about this we ask in the spirit
of Jesus.
He didn't ask it in the name of
Jesus, but in the spirit of Jesus.
He was a nice fellow.
Well, this is false, and we've got to
get back to this idea of a priesthood,
this idea of God here and man here,
and the two of them alienated from each
other, not by the fault of God, but
by the fault of man, getting back together
by a sacrifice, and a priest who could
come between God who is holy and man
who is unholy and bring the two of
them together.
That's priesthood, and that's what is here.
Now, the scripture tells us that a priest
could do this.
A priest had to have several qualifications.
A priest had to be ordained of God.
No man taketh this honor upon himself.
He had to be ordained of God.
Nobody could come out of the bush and
say, I'm a priest, rub his face with
some kind of paint and say, I'm a
priest.
God had to ordain the man, or else
he's a false priest.
And all the false priests around the world
are self-ordained men.
But there had to be a priest in
Old Testament times whom God ordained.
And then he had to be ordained for
men, it says here in the text.
God appointed him to help men.
God needs no help, and there is no
priest that can give God any help, but
man needs help.
And the work of the priest was to
atone for sins.
Now, the formula is given over in the
book of Leviticus, the fifth chapter, where it
says, And the priest shall sprinkle of the
blood of the sin offering upon the side
of the altar, and the rest of the
blood shall be wrung out at the bottom
of the altar.
It is a sin offering.
And he shall offer the second for a
burnt offering, according to the manner.
And the priest shall make an atonement for
him for his sin which he hath sinned,
and it shall be forgiven him.
There is the idea of the priesthood.
An offering was made for man, to God,
by the priest.
And the priest had this to do yet.
He was to represent God to man and
man to God.
Before God, he pleads for the man he
represents.
He instructs, he exhorts.
And with complete sympathy and understanding, he goes
to God for the man.
And this he can do because he is
himself a man.
But the breakdown, the scripture says in the
Old Testament, was that the priest, when he
went before God to stand in between a
holy God and fallen man, the priest was
embarrassed.
Always he was embarrassed because he had to
atone not only for the sins of the
people that he was reconciling, but he had
to atone for his own sins as well.
This was where the breakdown was.
That is why Isaac Watts could say, Not
all the blood of beasts on Jewish altars
slain would give the guilty conscience peace, nor
take away the stain.
But Christ the heavenly Lamb takes all our
sins away, the sacrifice of pure blood and
richer blood than they.
Showing that the priest couldn't, by the sacrifice
he made, take it away completely.
He partly took it away.
God forgave it and covered it until the
time that the great priest came.
So when Christ came, he qualified completely.
He was ordained of God.
That was qualification number one.
Thou art my son, thou art a priest
forever.
God said that.
He reconciled.
That's 2.17. He made reconciliation for the
people.
He had compassion, 5, 7, and 8.
That teaches us that Christ qualified as the
priest and he became the author of eternal
salvation.
The author, the source, the giver of eternal
salvation.
You can talk, as I've said before, too
much about almost anything.
You can preach too much about doctrine.
You go to some churches and all you'll
hear from the time you arrive until the
time you leave is the second work of
grace.
I remember one fellow I heard was teaching.
He taught the three psalms that our brother
Gray has taught so much about, those three
psalms, psalms 22, 23, and 24.
Here was his exposition.
He said, In Psalm 22, My God, my
God, why dost thou forsaken me?
He said, That's the sinner at the altar.
And he said, The bulls of Bashan have
stared upon me.
He said, That's the people looking curiously on
while the man prays at the altar.
And he said where it says, My bones
are out of joint and my strength dried
up.
He said he would get helpless there at
the altar.
Then he said, I will sing among the
brethren.
He got through.
And he said in Psalm 23, The Lord
is my shepherd.
And the man in the 22nd psalm said,
I am a worm and no man.
He said in the 22nd psalm he was
a worm.
And in the 23rd psalm he was a
sheep.
He had been converted.
And he went through the valley of the
shadow of death.
That was sanctification.
And he came out into the 24th chapter
and said, The earth is the Lord's and
the fulness thereof.
And he was a man.
That was exposition.
I heard that myself by a college president
of a little holiness college.
They see too much of grace everywhere.
I think that the Bible teaches that there
is a baptism and anointing of the Holy
Ghost after conversion, and I teach it.
But I don't claim to see it everywhere.
I heard a man preach on the text
when Jesus touched a man's eyes and he
saw men as trees walking.
Then he touched him again and he saw
everybody clearly.
He said, There you have it.
The first time he was converted, the second
time he was sanctified.
If you have to prove your case by
that kind of exegesis, you have no case
at all.
If you can't go to Romans and Colossians
and Hebrews and Galatians and find it, if
you have to go and worm around like
that, go teach it.
I believe you can.
I believe in the New Testament we are
specifically and clearly taught that there is such
a thing as being filled with the Holy
Spirit after conversion, and I have experienced it.
But you can preach that too much, you
can preach water baptism too much, you can
preach anything too much, but there is one
thing you can never overdo.
You never can preach the glory of Jesus
Christ too much.
You never can overdo the glory of the
Son of God, never, never.
I preached some sermons down in St. Paul
on the man Christ Jesus high and lifted
up, a series of sermons.
I've never preached them here, some day I
may.
But the people were moved, and I know
they were not moved by good preaching, but
they were moved by the fact that I
was talking about something that God had ordained
that they should hear about and weren't hearing
about.
Now, not that that pastor isn't preaching, and
he is, but I happened to strike a
note that moved the audiences, because I talked
about the Lord Jesus, and you can't overdo
that.
Dr. Simpson was not a great exegete.
The old fellow in his church, as I
told you, said, Brother Simpson only has one
sermon.
Do you know what his sermon was?
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.
Jesus Christ, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption.
Jesus Christ, Prophet, Priest and King.
Jesus Christ, resurrection and life, the truth and
the way.
Jesus Christ, everything.
You can't overdo that.
You can preach Christ continually and nobody will
ever get tired, because he is new every
morning, and he never gets stale.
He became the author, the source, the fountain,
the giver of eternal salvation.
After my article, I can't give you the
Latin or the Greek.
But salvation, you know where it comes from.
It comes from selus.
It comes from you, the selus, as they
would say in Christianity.
It means health and welfare and well-being.
He became the author of man's eternal health
and man's eternal well-being and man's eternal
welfare.
Salvation means more than getting your sins forgiven.
Conversion means more than giving up smoking.
I'm sure it will mean that, too, if
you get converted.
But salvation means that God brings to you
in Jesus Christ eternal salvation, which is the
health of the soul, the welfare of the
spirit forever, and the well-being of your
total life, worlds without end.
The word is eternal here.
Eternal forever and ever and ever and ever.
You can keep on saying ever and ever
and ever.
Somebody wrote me a letter and said, King
James version of the words of Greek and
Hebrew, by the word forever.
I said, there is no such meaning in
the Bible.
The word forever isn't there at all.
No such thing as endless existence.
How silly can you get?
Of course it's there.
The eternal God, the everlasting God.
You think that God is going to get
old and die?
The everlasting God?
As long as God lasts, the life of
his people will last.
And as long as God lasts, the salvation
and welfare of his people will last.
And since God is not wearing out, and
since the eternal God is self-existent and
self-sufficient, and lives with time in his
bosom, and knows no abrasion from the passing
of time, but remains forever the eternal God,
when I hear the word eternal salvation, to
them I believe that salvation will outlast the
sun and the moon and the stars and
the galaxies and all the worlds.
And the day will be when God will
take the stars of the heaven above and
throw them over his shoulder as a woman
might throw a garment with sequins on it,
shining and flashing.
Throw them over his shoulder, and they shall
be chained, says the scripture, like a garment.
But thou remainest and thy years fail not.
Sure there is eternity in the Bible, and
it's the devil that tells us there isn't.
And I don't care who he uses to
say so.
It's the devil that says that one of
these days God is going to reach over
as a woman reaches over after a dinner
and snuffs a candle and says, That's the
end of him.
There will be no end to me, there
will be no end to you.
And that's just why we ought to be
right with God.
That's why we ought to live, not for
now, not for today, but forever, because there
will be no end to us, thank God.
Salvation forever and ever unto all them that
obey him.
Now how's that?
Unto all them that obey him.
I thought you got salvation by believing him.
You'll find in the scriptures there's very little
difference between believing and obeying.
You'll find in the scriptures that the man
who isn't obeying isn't believing either.
And the fellow who says he has faith
but doesn't obey God is fooling himself.
There's a little song that's been sung to
death and all that, and it's not a
high-class song, but it says something very
fundamental, and that is the simple song, Trust
and Obey.
I believe that trust and obey are two
wings of a bird.
As the old writer said, two wings of
a dove don't weigh her down.
They don't weigh her down.
She rises by means of them.
And trust and obey are the two wings
of the Christian.
We trust and we obey, and we obey
because we trust, and we trust in order
that we might obey.
And if we try to obey without faith,
we get nowhere.
If we try to have faith without obedience,
it ends in nothing.
So he's given eternal salvation to them that
obey him and them that believe him, for
obviously the two are synonymous, if not identical,
synonymous.
And they're like two sides of a coin.
Here I have a coin.
On one side there's an elk, I think,
or a deer or something, and the other
side's a cameo of the Queen, a quarter,
it says, or whatever it says, I don't
know.
But there it is.
Now, I can't split that thing edgewise with
a fine saw and go down and buy
anything with it.
A fellow would see one side of it
and think it's all right, but when he
took it in his hand he'd say, what
did you do, what's the matter here?
That's only half a coin, he'd toss it
back.
You can't pass one side of a coin,
it takes two.
Trust is on one side and obey is
on the other.
But the Church has taken a fine saw
and split them, and we put trust over
here and obey over here, and they say,
you don't have to obey, it's believe, everything's
believe.
You can't divide that coin, you can't separate
it, and if you do it's no good.
Trust and obey, my friend, believe God and
then go get obedient.
You'll find it will work and it will
become in your heart eternal salvation, and Jesus
Christ will become your all in all.
Well, that's all for this morning.
I want to continue in this, talking about
that passage, that difficult passage about it's impossible
for those who were once enlightened ever to
be restored again.
I know there are all kinds of opinions,
but as we get to it I want
to preach on this.
God help us, it's necessary.