Accepting the Light-CHARLES LAWSON BIBLE SERMON-AUG 21 2024
Jesus' Own Words Have Given Provocation for Some to be Offended: by His Lack of Formal Education, His Paucity, His Coming from Galilee.... For These Causes, Some Would Reject Him. Light Accepted and Light Rejected is How We Are Accountable to God.
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00:00Well, I'll tell you what let's do if you turn the book of Matthew chapter 13 with me tonight, please
00:08Matthew chapter 13 and verse number 55
00:20Scripture says is not this the carpenters son
00:23Is not his mother called Mary and his brethren James and Joseph's and Simon and Judas
00:33And his sisters are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
00:41And they were offended in him
00:44but Jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honor save in his own country and in his own house and
00:51He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief
00:56Father bless your word now in thy name. Amen
01:01Now the context of that
01:03In verse number 53 it came to pass
01:05That when Jesus had finished these parables he departed thence and when he was come into his own country taught them in their synagogue
01:13in so much that they were astonished and
01:16said
01:18Whence hath this man this wisdom and these mighty works?
01:25We didn't train him
01:27We didn't graduate him from our colleges
01:30He's not part of our religious system
01:33There's no way in the world. He could be qualified
01:37So they were offended in him
01:39right, right
01:42you have to understand I
01:44Fully believe in training as much education as you can get get it. Believe me
01:50But the truth of the matter is a lot of places. It's a matter of control
01:55and if God calls God provides and
01:58God prepares and then God qualifies
02:02He does. Yes, he does
02:04Yes, he does
02:06But the Lord Jesus Christ didn't fit in from the beginning because he wasn't part of the system
02:11But was he taught in the word? Of course he was. Who taught him?
02:18The Bible says in the book of Isaiah day after day
02:20He would awaken the power of the Holy Spirit of God would open the scripture to him by the time he was 12 years of age
02:26He could confound the doctors of the law if you remember when they went back
02:30They found him in the temple and the and the doctors of the law were sitting around
02:35Listening very carefully to what this young man had to say and of course he knew what to say
02:42Time and again, he would quote the scriptures. He said search the scriptures
02:48Quote the scriptures scriptures, of course Genesis through Malachi
02:52He never one time quoted the Apocrypha
02:54He never time he never one time quoted a pagan
02:58author
02:59He quoted the scripture
03:01Time and again now the Apostle Paul
03:04Quoted a pagan and the Apostle Paul could refer to different things, but the Lord Jesus Christ only the word and
03:11Note carefully. He never appealed one time to the oral law
03:17which was the basis of the Mishnah, which is the foundation for the Talmud and
03:22the Gemara and the
03:24Midrash and Holoca and all the rest of it. Not one time did he ever appeal to the oral laws matter of fact
03:31He rebuked them and he told them he said you have made the Word of God of none effect by your traditions
03:38referring to the oral law
03:40And I've told you before and say again tonight
03:43There's a branch of Judaism that's called Chirite Jews and the Chirite Jew accepts only the Pentateuch
03:50Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomy as
03:53inspired they reject the
03:56Navim and the Kethuvim the law and rather the prophets and the writings
04:02They reject it as canonical scripture only the five books of Moses
04:07Chirite Jew and same with the Samaritans and their Samaritan Pentateuch. That's as far as it goes
04:13There's a lot out there today that say the Jews
04:16constructed their own Old Testament to create their own identity and this gets into liberalism and they say that
04:23Daniel never really
04:25existed and that
04:27Israel was nothing but a backwoods country
04:29tribal people and that they created all of this and by doing it they created their prophets and their writings and the Psalms and the
04:37Proverbs and Isaiah and Jeremiah and all the rest of it. So you have to make a decision tonight. Do you believe the Bible? I
04:44believe all
04:4666 books of it, right? Yes, sir. 39 Old Testament
04:5027 new the book of Matthew chapter number 8 in verse number 20. It says this Matthew 8 20
05:00Jesus saith unto him
05:02The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nest but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head
05:09He never owned any property and the very robe that he wore they took and cast lots for it
05:17When he was on the cross the Lord Jesus Christ was not rich with monetary with money of men
05:23But he was rich beyond measure
05:26Believe me
05:27He said lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where it can't be touched and moth and so forth cannot take it from you
05:34the
05:35prosperity gospel is appealing and
05:38Most of the people that I've ever known since I've been in the church have prospered. God has prospered me. He has blessed me and
05:46You live in an affluent society
05:48You live in a nation where if you apply yourself
05:51You more than likely will be able to make a good living if you really do if you apply yourself
05:55There's a lot of potential in America, but the truth of the matter is God didn't save you to make you wealthy
06:03He saved your soul to write your name the Lamb's Book of Life
06:07Book of John chapter number one in verse number 46. He says this
06:12John 1 46
06:16You
06:26John chapter number one in verse number 46
06:30and
06:32Nathaniel said unto him
06:34Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
06:38Philip saith unto him come and see
06:41So Nazareth had a reputation the Lord Jesus was called a Nazarene
06:46It had a reputation
06:48So I believe intentionally he associated himself with the wrong side of the tracks
06:54He didn't want to be accepted because of what men considered to be valuable
06:58That which is highly esteemed among men's abomination to God
07:02He was accepted because the revelation of the father. He said to them who do men say that I the son of man?
07:07Am that's what's important. Who is he tonight? He's not a rich man Savior or a poor man Savior. He's the Savior
07:15You don't care how much money you got and who you are where you came from
07:18so
07:19he
07:21He of course made that decision. Look at John chapter number 7 and verse number 15
07:27John 7 and verse 15
07:33And the Jews marvel saying
07:35How knoweth this man letters having never learned?
07:39You see he did not sit under under Gamaliel or he didn't sit under
07:44Hillel or he didn't sit under some of the greatest teachers and rabbis and sages of the day
07:50He didn't sit under them. He didn't need to
07:54The Bible says of us Christians. This is important tonight folks
07:58The Apostle John says in first John you have no meat need that a man teach you you have an anointing from the father
08:05All right. Now it says in the scripture to commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others
08:09Also, what's that mean?
08:11That means that a newborn babe in Christ needs instruction and direction and you need to help them as they learn the Bible
08:18but you should come to a point in your life as a Christian where you can discern you can discern heresy and
08:25You should be able to discern
08:27the
08:28When people are twisting the scriptures to their own destruction, you don't need you've got the Holy Spirit and when you hear some new thing
08:37Take it before God
08:39Do some serious praying about it. You'll discover that
08:43Novel things and that's what people are looking for. They're like the picureans and the Stoics over there and in in Greece
08:50they were waiting for some new thing and
08:53They said of the Apostle Paul said who is this babbler as he brings some new doctrine in amongst us. They were waiting
09:00That's what they did all day long. They argued over new things something novel. All right
09:05Well, this is what some Christians do they go from one place to the next looking for something new
09:10Do you know why they do that? It's because what they have isn't base substantial. It's not real. It's not a real foundation
09:17Christ is what we love and he's the one who we go after. He's the one we seek
09:22It's him and it's about him and that's what's all important to us
09:26so when you have someone like Judge Rutherford who comes in the 1800s and says that Christ is a created God or
09:32You have someone who comes along and says well, he's an avatar you hear a lot of that today
09:37you hear and you hear the things that changed like he's an ascended master and
09:41Christ is this great teacher of that great teacher. What they're doing is connecting the Lord Jesus with the New Age movement
09:47They're connecting him with witchcraft. They're connecting him with Hinduism. You remember the Russian that went off into
09:54Not a check or not of it not a check. I think his name was he went off into into into the hidden into India
10:01Back up into the into the monasteries and and supposedly said that he saw some ancient writings where
10:09Jesus 2,000 years ago had come as a boy and he came under the tutelage of one of their
10:14Gurus and taught him all these things where he went back to his people and he could perform miracles
10:21Authority for that he has none and it was followed up and they went up there and they checked in these same places that he'd gone
10:27To ask the people who ran these places and they said no such thing ever existed
10:31We don't have anything here about Jesus of Nazareth. And of course, they don't but that's the problem
10:37Somebody's looking for some new thing all the time some new move of God
10:43Let me tell you something 2,000 years ago
10:46He died on the cross
10:47Ascended to the right hand of the Father and sent the Holy Ghost into this world and we would do well to learn about the Holy
10:54Spirit of God
10:55He said in John chapter number three, you must be born again
11:00now here's what he said about that as
11:03The wind listeth or as it bloweth thou canst not tell from whence it cometh or whither it goeth
11:08So is everyone that is born of the Spirit of God?
11:11All right in plain words
11:13There is no set standard no set method no set channel for the Holy Spirit to come and begin to move upon the heart
11:20of a man or a woman
11:23That's the work of the Holy Spirit
11:25But he said plainly the Holy Ghost is absolutely necessary for you to be born again
11:31Can't happen. Otherwise the Holy Spirit must be there because you're born of the Spirit and
11:38We need to learn about the Holy Spirit then and this is part of what we do is learning
11:44Look at the book of Luke chapter number 2 and verse number 51
11:48Luke chapter 2 verse 51
11:55The
12:01Scripture says and he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them
12:08Now who are the them?
12:10We're looking back at his mother and his stepfather
12:14But his mother kept all these things or sayings in her heart and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor
12:21With God and man and he was being prepared for his ministry
12:26At the right hand of the Father as the great high priest
12:29The priest is the one who ministers the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit comes into this world and ministers
12:36Directly from the command and commission of the Father and the Son
12:40Amen, he's here working exactly as the Father and Son
12:45Send him into the world
12:47He said I'll send you the Spirit and so the Lord Jesus at the right hand of the Father Romans chapter number 8
12:53Ministers to you through the Holy Ghost in such a close fashion that the Bible says if you have not the Spirit of Christ
13:01You're none of his the Holy Spirit takes literally the identity of the Lord Jesus Christ
13:08Amen, that's what he does
13:10So it tells us right here that he subjected himself unto his mother's authority as his mother
13:17That wouldn't last but so long
13:19because on the cross at Calvary if you'll remember the Lord Jesus looked at his mother and said woman and
13:25This was not in disrespect
13:27He was setting her right
13:29He was saying to her Mary. You're my mother and I love you, but you must be born again
13:37also
13:38Yes, I do not believe in the immaculate conception of Mary. That's a Roman Catholic doctrine
13:45I do they what does that mean?
13:47That means that they teach that she was born without sin born without original sin
13:51And not born not being born according to the according to what Adam brought into this world in the book of Romans chapter number 5
13:59That's what that's what they teach you see and by teaching that then she doesn't need to be a Savior
14:05Doesn't need to be saved. She becomes a Savior
14:08It is her voice into the ear of her son
14:12According to the Catholic teaching that gets the ear of the son because the son loves his mother and he'll hear his mother when he won't
14:19Hear anyone else. That's the doctrine. That's the idea the folks. Where's that in the Bible?
14:25there's one God and
14:28How many mediators?
14:30one between God and men
14:33The woman or the man the man Christ Jesus, right? So you got to be careful
14:39Confess your sins you're a royal priesthood and all that, but you do not need someone to absolve you of your sins
14:46That was done at the cross and the blood of Christ as we just sang about a few minutes ago
14:51What can wash away my sin?
14:53Revelation chapter number 1 verse number 5 who hath loosed us from our sins. That's what it says, right?
15:00No, that's what the new Bible say
15:03They changed Lua de la UO
15:05Or the other way around I can I'm can't remember which way it goes but one means wash the other means loose
15:13So what does your Bible say in Revelation 1 5 he hath washed us from our sins in his own blood, right?
15:21Well, does that mean therefore that there needs to be blood?
15:25You got these people teaching that there is no blood in heaven that Christ did not enter with his own blood
15:29The blood is simply a type or record or a figure of the perfect life that he lived. Listen folks
15:36You are not saved by the life of Christ
15:40The way he lived his perfect sinless life
15:43You have liberalism out there that says we just mimic or follow the life of Christ and we'll be okay
15:48If we'll live like Christ, you can't do that. You don't have the capacity to do that. He lived a sinless perfect life
15:55So, how are you saved you mean you're not saved by the life of Christ? No, you're saved by his death burial and resurrection now
16:03the Bible says plainly that you are saved by his life in the sense that at his
16:08order at the right hand of the Father as
16:11the high priest for us
16:13Ministering for us. He saves your daily life. Not your eternal soul and spirit
16:19That's what he's talking about there. That's important
16:22That's a big deal because there's an awful lot of people out there that believe by keeping the Sermon on the Mount and they can't
16:27Do it and by keeping the commandments and they can't do it and by living what they consider to be a sinless perfect life
16:34That one day God will reward them in heaven for having lived a perfect life
16:41But the Apostle Paul says I'm of all the sinners the chief
16:45The Apostle John says in 1st John chapter number one that if you say you have not sinned you call God a liar
16:51And the Lord Jesus said to them that drugged the woman taking an adultery he that is without sin among you
16:57Let him cast the first stone stone time and time again. It makes it plain
17:02There is no one on this earth. That is sinless
17:05There's only one who lived a sinless perfect life and that's the Lord Jesus. And so therefore he is
17:11the only Savior
17:14in John chapter number 5 and verse number 30
17:17And
17:20Don't misunderstand dedication because there are people out there
17:25That live every day of their life. Is it in an in as an exemplary?
17:31possible way to live as
17:34Sinless as they possibly can but they still fail folks. It can't be done in
17:41John chapter number
17:44John chapter number 5 verse number 30. Here's what it says. I
17:48Can of mine own self do nothing. All right, let's stop for just a moment. What did he tell us?
17:56He told us in John chapter number 15
17:59He says without me you can do what?
18:02Nothing, so he's not asking anything of us that he didn't do himself
18:07He put himself
18:09completely at the disposal of the father and
18:12could only do what he did by the power of the Holy Spirit of God that God gave him without measure and
18:20Every deed that he did every miracle he performed all the perfect life that he lived
18:24He lived it by the power of the Holy Spirit of God
18:27Given to him without measure because he's the only one that has ever had the Holy Ghost without measure
18:33When the Lord gave me the Holy Spirit, he had to do some measuring
18:37Hey
18:38I'm only capable of holding so much
18:41It can only fill me so much
18:44But when it came to Christ, oh, no, no
18:46No, and there was the reciprocal moving of the Holy Spirit in his life, too
18:51but anyway, he he said I can do nothing the Apostle Paul said this he says I
18:58Am nothing and that's true. I am nothing
19:03Does that mean my identity comes from as I relate to Christ and who I am our
19:08Identity is one of the biggest things of who we are
19:12You ever watch how people what they do when they had when it has to do with their names
19:16The crowd they run with their genealogy all these other where they went to school all these things have to do with their identity
19:23And the identity changes from generation to generation to generation to generation. It's such a big deal
19:30so here we read and
19:33He we read over here in the book of John John chapter number eight now, let's see no Luke 23
19:42Luke chapter number 23
19:49Luke 23 verse 34
19:56Then said Jesus father
20:00forgive them
20:01For they know not what they do and they parted his raiment and cast lots
20:08All right. Now they knew they were crucifying a man, but they didn't know who he was
20:15You see you remember this think about it for a minute you what the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is
20:22the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
20:25It is to reject
20:27The direct light that the Holy Spirit is giving you of who Christ is
20:34Outright reject it and say no to that revelation from God
20:38Because your relationship with God is built entirely upon who the Son of God is
20:45This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light
20:53one of the greatest studies in the Bible is the study of light as you find it in the gospel of John and
20:58In John chapter number one. He says this he is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world now
21:05Let's just stop for a moment and think about that. Do you remember what I told you about tulip total depravity?
21:12Unconditional election limited atonement
21:14Irresistible grace and predestination. It's the acronym for those five things. All right that defines
21:20Hyper Calvinism
21:22Hyper Calvinism believes that God chose in eternity past to make a creature a
21:29man and one day
21:32Burn him in hell forever and never give him an opportunity to be saved
21:37Because he by his sovereign will and grace
21:42chooses who's going to be saved and who's not now that is the
21:47Predestination and that's the act of a sovereign God according to hyper Calvinism
21:52So what does that do to you that takes your choice away right now come back to John 1?
22:00He's the light that lighteth the elect
22:06See what I mean look what's happening?
22:08He's the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world
22:14Now here we go. We are messing with Calvin's corpse
22:18You see in plain words
22:22according to hyper Calvinism you don't have the ability to answer or
22:27Respond or any sense like that you don't have that ability
22:32God must
22:35Reach out and choose you and call you in order for you to be saved make no mistake
22:41He certainly does reach out and choose and call
22:47Election is a Bible doctrine
22:49But what about the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world?
22:55If there's no way that if there's nothing in you to answer, what's that?
22:59So what you do get you 15 commentaries down and they'll run you in 15 different directions
23:06Well coming into the world. He is the light of the world one of them will say it that way
23:10What's they done? What have they done? They've completely changed the meaning of it, right and the grammar won't let them do it
23:16But they're going to do it anyway
23:18Because they want to support their their theology
23:21So you mean to tell me preacher that when I was born I brought into this world
23:27That there was a light that lights every man that cometh into the world
23:32Define that light. I can't define it, but I believe what the Bible says I
23:36Believe that you're accountable for what you do with that light. I
23:40Believe that light is absolutely
23:43Necessary for God to relate to you
23:48The Bible says neither cometh aid of the light why because their deeds were evil, right?
23:54They refused the light the Lord Jesus says I'm the light of the world
23:58As long as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world
24:01That's what he said and in the book of John he mentioned that day with a great light the great
24:07He was the great light
24:08That lighteth all men the great feast of lights and the Lord Jesus standing in the midst of it the light of the world
24:16The more light you have from God
24:19The more accountable you are and the more light you have from God the more light
24:25He gives you if you accept the light you get
24:30That's the doctrine that's the key
24:34Don't you look at something look at Romans chapter number two
24:38And I'll just do these here along the way
24:44And we'll close with this tonight
24:51Let's look at verse 11 Romans 2 11
24:55There's no respect of persons with God
24:58For as many as have sinned without law ignorant of the law shall also perish without law wages of sin is what?
25:07It doesn't it doesn't excuse that
25:09And as many as have sinned in the law shall be done what?
25:15Judged by the law
25:18For not the hearers of the law are just before God
25:22But the doers of the law shall be justified now watch this verse 14
25:27Now remember where you are?
25:29What happens in the first chapter of the book of Romans?
25:32When they knew God they did what?
25:35They glorified him not as God became vain in their imaginations foolish heart was darkened right they were turned into dark
25:42away from the light ignorance
25:45They rejected God. That's exactly what's happened to the good old us of a
25:50It's had the light, but it's turned from it. It's rejected it and now what are they doing? They're stumbling in darkness
25:57All right, this is exactly what he's talking about in Romans, but look at this
26:02verse 14 when the Gentiles
26:04So there's no mistaking this
26:07For when the Gentiles which have not the law
26:10So if you don't have the law you're not judged by the law is that what he just told you of course he did
26:16Which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law, so there is a natural law written in the heart of a man
26:23These having not the law or what a law unto themselves now look at verse 15
26:30Which show the work of the law written in their hearts
26:34Their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts to mean while accusing or else excusing one another
26:42Where do you get hyper Calvinism to fit in here?
26:46You don't it won't fit look at verse 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men
26:53By my gospel all right now go to John chapter number 9
26:59I
27:03Won't give you just enough tonight, so you go home say what's he talking about?
27:10John 9
27:12man born blind
27:14All right in typology who does he represent?
27:18He represents Israel
27:20He's born blind
27:22What happens?
27:23The Lord Jesus Christ takes the curse of the earth remember that makes mud dirt cursed is the ground
27:30Puts it on his eyes. All right. He's born blind the curse is on his eyes. He can't see
27:36He goes down to the pool of Siloam the word Siloam means scent so the water scent from God like the Holy Spirit
27:44He washes the eye the mud comes out the curse is washed away, and what happens?
27:51He sees all right now look at the last few verses of John 9
27:58Verse 39
28:01For judgment I am come into this world that they which see not might see
28:08and
28:10That they which see might be made blind
28:13Well, he doesn't come to blind the truth. He comes to blind
28:17This religious profession where you say you see and you have don't have Christ you don't see you're blind
28:24But anyway look at verse 40
28:26Some of the Pharisees were with him heard these things and words and said unto him are we blind also?
28:33Now look at verse 41
28:35Jesus said unto them
28:37If ye were blind ye should what?
28:41Now look at this now. Let's stop for a moment is he telling them. They're sinless of course not
28:47He's telling them that you cannot be held accountable
28:50All right for what you don't know
28:53That's what he just said he said
28:56but if you were blind you should have no sin
29:02But now you say we see
29:05Therefore your sin remaineth well. They what have they done. They've rejected the light
29:09That's what's happened to them
29:11That they've rejected it and then over here in John 15. I think it is
29:16You remember these things are written that you might believe
29:20John chapter number 15
29:24Let's see
29:30Okay
29:32I'll have to look this I never could remember exactly where this text was it was in 15
29:37Well the comforters come
29:42All right, I can't find it right now, but it supports what I just read to you
29:506
29:5226
29:55Yeah, that's the spirit of truth he's coming to testify
30:00He's coming to testify
30:02That's the spirit of truth he's coming to testify
30:06Anyway, I'll I'll find it when I get home
30:11I'll guarantee it. It'll pop right up. So
30:16It what it does it repeats what I just read to you from John 9
30:24Okay
30:27Let's see
30:29There it is
30:31We have somebody with sharp eyes who got that
30:34Good, you got that, right? This is it now. Look at it
30:39If I had not come
30:42And spoken unto them they had what?
30:46They had not had sin see this does he say that they are sinless? No
30:51He's speaking to a specific thing
30:54Now look at verse 22
30:55But now they have no what?
30:58Cloak there's nothing to hide behind
31:02You've heard a clear presentation of the gospel the light shining you say no to christ
31:06You've rejected the light you've turned away from the light. There's nowhere to run
31:10There's nothing to hide behind
31:12You have you have nothing to appeal to
31:15You're guilty
31:17You see how it works. God's no respecter of persons
31:20So what do you do? Well, what the devil does is change the power of the gospel
31:24He'll change it into some feel-good thing
31:26He'll take away the cross and the blood. He'll take away repentance
31:30He'll take away that part of the new birth where we preach the new birth
31:32How many how much preaching do you hear today and there's nothing said about the new birth?
31:37Nothing, not a word said about the new birth. It's all about do good do right be good
31:42Be the best you can you know be a good person and we're all doing the same thing
31:46We're going up this up the up the same mountain. You're going this way. I'm going that way
31:50Hey, well, we're okay. Just do the best you can
31:52We're okay just do the best you can
31:55Well the best you can is not good enough not by works of righteousness, which we have done
31:59But according to his mercy saved us
32:02Well the washing of regeneration renewing of the holy spirit of god. No, you'll never be good enough
32:07But what i'm doing is getting into the nuts and bolts
32:10Of what it has to do with conviction and light accepted and light rejected not one word
32:16That's ever said in this bible says that you are sinless. We're accountable. But how are we accountable?
32:21That's what i'm trying to show you tonight. You see the criteria where god holds you accountable
32:27For the light that you receive or reject. Amen
32:31So what does that do to us?
32:34Like brother mcdonnell and me
32:37Any of the preachers in the house
32:39We have a responsibility to do what?
32:42Shine the light
32:44Yes, we do preach christ
32:47and him crucified
32:48Amen
32:49And that's my responsibility tonight
32:52And by the grace of god
32:53I will
32:55I'll close with this one luke chapter 15
32:58And verse number two
32:59Here's an awful awful
33:02Charge that they brought against christ. What this is a terrible thing
33:06Luke chapter 15 verse number two. I can't believe he'd do such a thing as this
33:11Luke chapter 15 and verse number two. What a thing man
33:14luke chapter 15
33:16And verse number two
33:19Luke chapter 15
33:21and verse number two
33:23They drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him notice how they were drawn to him
33:28verse two
33:30and the pharisees and the scribes murmured
33:33saying
33:34This man
33:35Receiveth sinners and eateth with him my goodness
33:39Isn't that awful?
33:43Aren't you glad
33:44It makes no difference what kind of shape you're in
33:48How sorry and low down you are what a load of sin you've got
33:52He'll sit down and eat with you
33:55Why because he's the friend of sinners
33:57How many how many would confess tonight and say honestly from your heart?
34:01You know preacher before I ever got saved I could feel the hand of god in my life on occasion
34:06I knew he was working with me. He was there with me. He was long suffering with me
34:10In other words, he befriended me
34:12He was a friend to me I got knocked 20 feet into the air on clinton highway
34:19At least 20 feet. I mean I got knocked out of my boots
34:22And I got up and drug my motorcycle back to the side of the road cussing and blaspheming god
34:27But god's hand saved me that day
34:30He was a friend to me
34:32I could have died and gone to hell right then
34:35But he was a friend to me
34:37And you wouldn't believe now. I mean, I know you would
34:40I have thinking spells
34:42I mean just all I do is thank god. Thank you lord. Thank you
34:45And it just starts flooding my soul of the things to thank god for
34:50Amen, and that's one of them. That's one of them
34:53That's one of them
34:55And if you ever come close like that to die and you'll
34:57You know, you'll appreciate it. You'll think about it
35:00I'm sure donald trump
35:02uh when that bullet
35:04Pierced his and there's nobody on this earth
35:07Now i'll tell you right now that it's good enough shot
35:10With a rifle to blow off part of that man's ear
35:15Intentionally he was headed for his head
35:21They know there's no man i've ever known that's that good a shot
35:25You're talking about splitting a hair
35:27No
35:28god's hand
35:30Saved the man
35:32God's hand saved him
35:34God's hand saved him. Yes. He did no doubt in my mind
35:38Has god ever done that for you
35:41Amen, folks. I can take you to the spot in front of vanslack volkswagen. I can take you to the very spot
35:47I left that motorcycle didn't intend to leave that motorcycle
35:50But I had I went on a roller coaster
35:54Up, I went boy
35:55back down
35:57I came it's amazing. God's a good god. He's been good to me
36:02Amen
36:03All right, well i'm done father bless your word lord, thank you for this little time we have together in your holy name. Amen