I thank God for saving my soul. He gave me a free gift of eternal life. He changed my course. He established my going. He put my feet upon the solid rock. The rock is Christ. I tell you, I've never been the same. The very time, the very second that I was saved and born again, Heaven came down to glorify my soul. From that point on, I've been a new creature in Christ. Old things passed away. Behold, all things have become new to me ever since I've been saved. I thank God for that. I thank God for getting alive in my heart. I was dead. I was in trespasses and sin. I tell you, I walked according to the course of this world as a child of disobedience. I tell you, I had no hope. There was no way that I could change the way I was going on my own. And I'm so glad that I heard the word of God preached. I'm so glad that someone prayed for me and got me in the presence of God, and I could hear the man of God preach. And I tell you, I heard him preach. The Word of God fell on my heart. I believed what I heard. In other words, I repented of my sin. I sought the Lord with all my heart. And I tell you, He saved me just like I was. I've never been the same. He put the Holy Spirit in me that very instant. When I got saved, that's how I know I got saved, because the Spirit of the living God got alive in my heart. And I tell you, I've been walking this life. I haven't been walking around. in doubt. I haven't been just walking around like somebody that can't find their way. Thank God I'm in the way. I'm in the bright and shining way today. Thank God because Jesus has made himself known in my heart and enlightened my soul. I tell you the light of God is in my soul. I tell you the light got in my old darkened soul and that dark soul could not comprehend it. He quickened me. He made me alive and now today I have sunlight in my soul today, most glorious and bright. I tell you I've had a real change It wasn't just a change of mind. I tell you, folks, like most people get, they get a change of mind, a change of way of living, but never a change of heart and their souls never been saved and never been born again. They're still the same old person. They're still walking after their flesh. They never had their souls, in other words, been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. Therefore, they're still lost. and on their way to hell. But thank God for the quickening power of the Holy Spirit today. I tell you, He'll come and He'll deal with your heart. I tell you, the Word of God will be preached when it's preached. And the Holy Spirit, I tell you, will deal with you, convict you as a sinner. And when you realize you're a sinner, you'll seek Him with all your heart and confess your sin to Him. and get starved after a garbage sort, you come to Him like that, I promise you He'll save you and make you a new creature in Christ. I tell you, the Bible talks about what's going to take place. There's going to be a new walk for you. I tell you, there's going to be a new life for you because you're not the creature that you used to be. You're not the person that you used to be. Your desires have changed. The Bible talks about that. Our nature has been changed. We either are saved, we don't have the swine's nature any longer, we don't have a dog's nature any longer, but we have a sheep's nature. We have a divine nature. God in us, Christ in us, the hope of glory. The Bible talks about that and Paul talks about the life I now live since he's been saved. I live by the faith of the Son of God. I tell you, the one who loved me and died for me on the cross, that's who I'm living unto, and I'm living by faith today. I tell you, I'm living by faith. No matter what evil the tide, I'm living by faith. I tell you, I know that. Though the storm clouds rise, I tell you, I'm still living by faith. The Bible talks about, now, the just shall live. by faith. The Bible talks about that. And the Apostle Paul knew about it. Living by faith. He said, in the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God. Thank God I have something to live by. I have something to die by. Thank God today, what I'm preaching today is good to live by. It's good to die by. I tell you, it'll take me past the grave. Thank God, when I die, when this old soul leaves this body, I'm going to be with the Lord. I tell you, I'm going to be in the presence of God Almighty. I tell you, I know that without a shadow of doubt. I'm glad of that. And I know whom I have believed. And I'm persuaded He's able to keep that which I committed Him against that day. I tell you, I serve a true and a living God. I tell you, the Bible said, Jesus said, I have all power in heaven and in earth. Thank God He has control of the devil, of everything and everybody. And I'm so glad I'm serving a true and a living God today. I love today. I appreciate Him saving me. I wasn't worthy. Never could have been worthy. And neither are you worthy. or anybody else could be worthy, could be saved. I tell you, I don't care how good you try to live, and how good you try to do, you still cannot get to heaven by your good works. The Bible, the book of Ephesians tells us that. It's not a work that you do. The Bible talks about that. It's not a work. But it is the gift of God. The Bible talks about the book of Titus, that it's not a work of rights that we do, but it's what Jesus done on the cross, and by his mercy and his love, that's how we've been saved. He saved us. by His mercy. And I tell you, I'm so glad to know that today, that the Lord's mercies are renewed every morning, and His compassion never fails. Thank God He's not a God that casts you off. The Bible said He don't cast you off. The Bible said when you get saved, He said, Behold, I am with you, and I'll be with you even until the end. of the world. The book of Romans, it tells us, I believe it is, chapter number 8, it talks about what or who can separate us from the love of God and Christ Jesus. The Bible said neither death nor life nor things present nor the things to come or any other creature can be able to separate us from the love of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Now He said neither death, now death, even though in my body I die, that still cannot separate me from God. You see what I'm talking about? To be absent from my body means to be present with the Lord. You see, what I'm talking about today, the Bible said, who shall separate you from the love of God and Christ Jesus? He said, neither dead. I mean, the dead cannot separate me from God. I tell you, though my body goes back to the dust, I'm still going to be with God. I tell you, I have that fellowship. I belong to God. He belongs to me. Once He saved me, He bought me with the precious blood of Jesus. He filled me with the Holy Spirit of promise unto one that he'll win the day of redemption, and I'm here, thank God, I'm anchored in the haven of rest, the cell, the wide seas no more. I got an anchor, the anchor of the soul, a hope of an anchor. I tell you, I'm anchored in Jesus, thank God, I'm in Him, and thank God, no man can change it, no person can change it, neither can any power change it, no principality can change it, no other creature can change it, death can't change it, nothing can change, that for me. Thank God it's settled and sealed. Thank God it's already settled and sealed. Thank God my name's already in the last book of life. And the devil can't take it out. No one can take it out. Even if I wanted to be taken out, I couldn't take it out. And neither of those things I could do can cause it to be taken out. But folks, I tell you, when you really get saved, Do you want to be there with God? Do you want to be where He's at? If, thank God, I don't want it to be changed, but what I'm simply saying, it cannot be changed. Folks, once you really get saved, it's settled and it's sealed. You belong to God. I tell you, if the devil could get, in other words, get your soul, once you've been saved, he'll be greater than Jesus. The Bible talks about that we're sealed and we've been bought with the precious blood of Jesus. Now, our blood's been cleansed. Our soul's been cleansed by the blood of Jesus, and I tell you, if the devil gets in our soul again, he'll have to get on the blood. And I tell you, if anybody gets on the blood, they're saved. And the devil, he never will be saved. There's other good preachers talked about that, and it is true. The Bible talks about it. If the devil got on the blood, he'd be a saved devil. And thank God you know that. The devil don't want to be saved because he is the father of pride. And I tell you, he does not want to bow to anybody or anything. That's what got him in trouble from the beginning. And I tell you, that's why he's in hell. That's why he's got that place. And I tell you, today the Bible tells us, yes, the devil is loosed, and he's going to and fro through the earth, trying to bind up all that he can, take every soul that can, straight on down to hell. I tell you, that is the goal of the devil. That is the duty. That's his job. That's what he's put out to do, is to go out and to steal away God's creation and take everybody he can to hell. All that people that God's created, He wants some for Himself to be in hell with Him. But I'm going to tell you something, the Lord's in charge of the devil. But I tell you today, don't let the devil take control of your mind and take your soul to hell. He will. I tell you, you better be careful what you do with the Word of God. The devil is very real. His demons are real. And I tell you, the devil will bind you up. He'll bind you up. And I tell you, first he works on the mind. But as you entertain the thoughts, and when you start following the thoughts, when you start entertaining that and start leaning toward that and start rejecting God altogether, starting to harden your heart and stiffen your neck against God, I tell you what will happen, the Lord will turn you over. You'll turn yourself over, what I'm trying to say, and the devil will take you to hell. You'll reject God, the Bible talks about that. God won't cast you off, but you cast your old self off. What I'm talking about today, He'll bind your mind up and take you down. You won't be able to have no control over it. He'll just totally take you down. And I tell you, you need to be careful what you do with the Word of God. I tell these people today, And there are people that say they're saved, and they try to live a good moral life, but they don't want to have this kind of preaching. They'll say that I'm of the devil. They'll say that I'm not preaching truth. They'll say I'm some poor ignorant soul, and I don't know what I'm talking about. But folks, one thing I do know today, I know what I'm talking about to be the truth. I got the witness. on the inside. I tell you, it bears witness, and I know I'm telling the truth. I'm going to tell you something, folks, when I make a mistake, and I try not to make a practice of that, but just being human when we make mistakes, whether it may be a bad attitude, just maybe a thought of foolishness, whatever it may be, I try not to have a bad attitude. I always try to look at myself and control myself and follow the Lord and stay in prayer. But I'm going to tell you, when I do fall, when I have fell, I'm going to tell you, it grieves me on the inside. Nobody has to come and tell me and point their finger at me because I know it because the Holy Spirit has already done it to me. But I tell you, if I get so far out where I can't hear God, when I get so bound up and I start running, I tell you, I want someone to tell, I want the Lord's man to rebuke me. And even now, I tell you, I need rebuke, give it to me. I tell you, I love the Lord and I want to see myself. I'm not talking about that, but I'm talking about people that don't want to hear the Word of God. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want nobody to tell them where they ought to live. But see, folks, that's what the Bible is for. It's a way to live, it's a way to walk. I tell you, it's what the Bible tells us how to conduct ourselves as Christians, how to talk, how to walk, how to dress, how to conduct ourselves, what kind of behavior to have. The Bible said all the man, it talked about the man of good behavior, it talked about that too, the man that desires the office of a bishop, not only that, but anybody and everybody that's saved ought to be one of good behavior, have a good behavior, and try to do good and act right and follow the Lord. And I tell you, the Lord is a God of holiness. He's a God of love. And I tell you, we are His children. We ought to really bear His name and don't bear it in vain. We ought to really lift it up. And the Bible said if He'd be lifted up, He'd draw all men unto Him. And we need to lift Him up by the way that we live and the way that we do. Not the way we talk so much, but the way we live, the way we walk, that people may see us. And I tell you, that's what we need to do. Dr. Pastor, he has been preaching that. Those that preach the gospel must live the gospel. And I tell you, how in the world can we preach if we don't live it? I tell you, I'm trying to practice that. I got a long ways to go, but God knows in my heart I'm trying to take a good look. I don't want nothing in my life, anything that's just pleasing to the Lord. And I don't want to do anything without God. I tell you, the Bible says, the flesh will profit you nothing but the Spirit that will quicken and make you alive. And I tell you, that's what I want to speak from today. I want to speak from the Spirit of God. I tell you, I don't want to try to follow some type of no. or anything else. I want to follow the Lord. I want to study to show myself approved unto God. I want to work and not be ashamed, but write the Bible. The Word of Truth, that's what I want to do. But I'm going to tell you something, folks. If God don't give it, the Spirit of God don't give it, you're wasting your time. I tell you, people say, well, I didn't have time to take notes or anything of that sort. You don't have to do that. The Lord will bring it out. Sometimes the Lord suffers things to do so. that shows you that it's all Him. And see, folks, I believe you need to study, all right? You need to look and see what God's trying to give you for a message, and I believe you need to follow the Lord. But I don't believe we need to take notes and try to pin down things. I know the Holy Spirit will bring all things to our remembrance in the hours that we need them. And I tell you, that's what I told to pin down. I depend on the Lord. I tell you, I hate the flesh, and I hate the sermons of the flesh, But I love the Lord. I tell you, it grieves me to hear people that speak in error. And I tell you, they're speaking in error, but they're not of God. And I tell you, it grieves my soul. But I love the Lord, and I love people. And that's why I'm preaching on this radio station today, that I might be able to preach the truth to you that you might hear. I tell you, I'm preaching the truth today, the way of salvation. The Bible talks about if you don't repent, you're going to perish now, folks. The Bible says, unless you repent, you're all likewise perished. That is the gospel. Repent or perish. You've got to believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You've got to believe in his death, burial, and resurrection. You've got to know who he is. You've got to believe that he is the Son of God. The Bible talks about that in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. We begin to go and talk. The Bible talks about, the Bible says you received this and you've been saved since you knew and recognized that by the scriptures that Christ did rise from the dead. that He is God, that He is the Son of God. I tell you, you need to go on and read that in the first few verses of Corinthians. But today, the Lord being my helper, I want to speak to you out of the book of Lamentations, chapter number 3, and read a few verses of Scripture, and whatever the Lord wants us to do today, that's what I'll do. If we don't preach the whole 30 minutes, we'll just close it on out. Whatever God gives us today, That'd be right. I tell you, we're not trying to have some whale sermon planned out for you, but I'm trying to preach what the Lord wants me to say today, because He knows what you need. I don't. And the Holy Spirit can reach every heart. I mean, there's enough to go around. When He breaks the Word, when He breaks the bread alive, I tell you, it'll be enough. And I tell you, just like it was when the Lord seen the multitude, the Bible said He had compassion upon the multitude, because they had not eaten, and their journey was going to be too far for them, So I began to ask the disciples, how many loaves have you? How many fishes do you have? They talked about that, just a few fishes and seven loaves I believe it was, or just a couple loaves of seven fishes. I forgot exactly what it said, but it was just a very small amount to a big great multitude. But he had compassion upon them. The Bible said he broke it up and then he gave it to the disciples. And the disciples gave unto them. And I tell you, unless the Lord gives us the Word of God, unless He breaks it up and shows us and gives us the Word of God, we're wasting our time to try to defeat it to Him because God didn't give it. But if He gives it, breaks it, blesses the Word of God, it's not going to come back forth. It's going to accomplish whatever He sent it out to do. And folks, I tell you, that's what we need to do. But the Bible said in verse number 21, He said, This I call to my mind, therefore have I hope. We're talking about a man here, we're talking about the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, the man that loved God. I mean, he weeped both day and night. He said, that I may weep both day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people." He said, my heart's crushed, my eyes affected, my heart, and I see the need, I see my people being destroyed. And I tell you, he began to pray, and I tell you, he knew that God was a God of mercy. He knew that God hears and answers prayer, and he came to the Lord. He began to say this, and I called to my mind, therefore I have hope. He said, this is the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed because His compassion I tell you, that means a lot to me today, knowing that the Lord's compassion's never failed. He looks upon me every day, day in and day out. He has compassion upon me all the time. I tell you, I have mercy. The Bible said that He is a God of mercy. The Bible said that He is that great, merciful High Priest. Thank God He is the merciful High Priest. He is on the right hand of God, interceding and praying for the saints. according to the Word of God. Thank God there's nothing that we can't take before Him. The Bible says in the book of Hebrews, therefore we can come boldly to the throne of grace to find help in the time of need, in the time of trouble. Thank God we have a great, merciful, high priest that we can come and talk to and talk it over with the Lord. Thank God the Bible says come unto Him. All that you weak, all that you, uh, in other words, the weak and heavy laden, I will give you rest. The way is made. You can come to Him now, and He's there. The Bible talks about, cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. The Bible talks about, come unto Him. It's talking to unbelievers, too. Come on up to Him. I tell you, you're lost, and you're on your way to hell, and you're raving for things that's gonna pass. You're not laboring for the meat that endures to everlasting life, but you're laboring for the thing that's going to perish. But you need to labor for the thing that's going to be endured forever. You need to come to the Lord. You need to take of Him and eat of Him. He is the bread of heaven. He said, I am. the true bread of heaven. The Bible said that those in the wilderness there, they did eat of the bread, and they died. They ate from the manna that came from above, but they died. That kind of bread wasn't the true bread from heaven, but Jesus said, I am the true bread. If anybody eat of me, he'll never Thank God I'll never die. Thank God I'm going on to be with the Lord. Thank God people say yes. The Bible, they try to say it's just one thing. Well, it's just one organism they're talking about. It's just one part of you there, and they're talking about once she died, that's the end. It's over and done with. But I beg to pardon. I'll tell you something, folks. The Bible says if you eat of the Lord Jesus, if you eat of the bread of heaven, You'll never die. Thank God the soul will live on and on and on, and it never will die. Thank God there's nobody going to go back to the dust. But I tell you so, so am I still going to be with the Lord. Thank God once you eat of Him, and once you drink the Bible said of His blood, the Bible talked about it, you drink it till it comes. The Bible talked about that. I've drunk of Him. And not only that, I hadn't thirsted any longer. I don't thirst for salvation no more. Neither do I hunger for the things of the world no more. Thank God I'm totally satisfied because I've ate of Him. I've taken of Him. I've eaten of Him. Thank God I'm saved forever. Thank God I'm in Him and He's in me. Thank God He broke the bread. The Bible said when He broke that bread, He gave it to His disciples. And they'd eat of it. He said, now when you do this, You do the remembrance of my body, knowing that I gave my body for you, knowing that I gave my body as a living sacrifice. I gave my body for sacrifice. I shed my blood, which the blood was poured out of this old body. My body died. It went back. He laid his life down for his friends. He paid a price that we couldn't pay. Hey, I mean, he paid us. In other words, he done away with the debt that we could not pay, too. And he died for us, so he gave his life. He gave his body. He said, now, often as you do this, you do it in remembrance of me. Remember my death. Remember the body that I... Yeah, the Bible talked about that when He came to the world. He said, Sacrifice and burnt off, and thou willest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. The Lord prepared a body for Him to die. The Bible talked about God Himself, God in man. He got into a woman. The Bible said He got under the law. He got under the woman. Under the law, He got in the womb of a woman. And the Bible talked about He was born. His seed came from above, but His body came forth of a woman, of a man. He got into human flesh that He might be the atonement for sin. There could be no atonement that could make any man perfect. But until that time, the Bible talks about that those things in the law, the things that were offered, never could in any time could make any man perfect. But the Bible talks about the New Testament that came, a better Testament came that could do that. That was the Lord. Jesus Christ. He done with it at first and He might establish the second. And thank God I know whom I have believed today and I'm standing on the rock today. Thank God I'm standing on the firm foundation, that foundation And I know today he is that merciful high priest, and he is now the right hand of the Father. He's sitting down on the mercy seat. He done the price. He paid the price, and he done the work. He said, now, Father, I've done all that thou commandest me to do. I've done all that you send me out to do. Now, Father, it's time for me. He went on. I tell you, he went on, and he died, and he gave up the ghost. So Calvary, he gave up the ghost, means he gave up his spirit. His spirit left his body. body. They took his body and laid it into a barred tomb. But yet his spirit went down to hell. The Bible talked about it. His soul went on down to hell. That's what he talked about. Man, he went on down there, and he paid the price for sin, and he got the keys of the dead from the devil. He conquered death, hell, and the grave. That's the time when he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. That's how those people of old, the people that died in him, that's how they were seen in Jerusalem running about. They seen them. The Bible talked about that. He raised them from the dead. That was the first for them that slept. Thank God, when they died, that was just it for them. God raised them back up, and they went on out to be with the Lord above the third heaven, which Paul talks about. And then, of course, there's going to be the time of the church, the rapture of the church, the catching of the way where we're going to get out of here. And then there's going to be a time of the bleeding. The tribulation's safe. Thank God it's for. See, just living in this world, living in this old pitiful world, where troubles don't ever end, like Joseph said, man, this poor of a woman, his few days are full of trouble. Thank God the Bible said, and Paul talked about it, if I had hope only in this world, only, I'd be all being like, all being most miserable. Thank God, but there is a greater hope. Thank God it's a hope not of a hope so, but it's a no so hope, knowing So he has to, from the bottom of his heart, be present with the Lord. We've got a hope of an anchor through the soul. Thank God we know that he's ours. We know that we're of him. And He knows us. We know we belong to God. I tell you, the Bible talks about my sheep. They said that I am the shepherd of the sheep, and my sheep know my voice, and the stranger they will not follow. And He said, you are my sheep. He knows the sheep. He knows those that have been bought and been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. And I thank God for that. He said, but this I cause in my mind, therefore I have a hope. It is the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassion fails not. talking here, and I can take this to myself, and you can too. He's talking about God's mercy. It's a pattern. It's a thing. It's an example how God dealt with him in the time of old, how we ought to know how God works and how God deals with his people. He said all these things were given and read for examples that we would not follow after the way that they followed. You see, God has mercy upon them. And Jeremiah knew about the mercy of the Lord. And the New Testament talks all about the mercy of the Lord, the grace of God, and the mercy of God. Folks, I tell you, I'm not under wrath any longer, but I'm under grace. I'm under grace. I'm under God's mercy, because I'm of God, and I've been saved, and He's the God of mercy, and He has mercy upon me. The Bible talks about blessed are the merciful. They shall obtain mercy. Thank God. I tell you, when He He saved me. He caused me to be merciful. See, God causes us to be merciful over those people that can't help themselves. God gives us that same compassion in our hearts that we ought to, as He has compassion on us, we ought to have compassion on all the lowly, all the disobedient. We ought to have compassion on people that can't help themselves. They're lost. We ought to have compassion on them, and love them, and pray for them, and lead them to the Lord. We ought to need that, and people need to see that, but we're merciful. We're going to attain mercy if we'll just be merciful to people. And I tell you, that's what I want to be. I want to be like the Lord. He's the great merciful high priest now. And I'm his child. And I tell you, I want to show and I want to live after the pattern that God gave and God has. The Bible said not to be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds. We need to be transformed. We may know what is the perfect. We may know what the will of the Lord is for our lives. We need to know that. We need to understand that. We need to follow that. We need to love the Lord with all our mind, soul, strength, and body. And don't lean to the flesh. Don't follow the flesh. We ought to follow after the Spirit and do the things of the Spirit. We might not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. And I tell you folks, if I follow my flesh, that don't mean I'm going to lose my salvation. That don't mean God's going to cast me into hell. Not so, but what it does mean, the Bible says, if you sow to your flesh, of your flesh you will reap corruption. If you are sold to the Spirit, you will reap life, and life will be sold bountifully. You're going to reap bountifully. I'm going to tell you something, folks. You're going to reap what you sold. If you're a Christian and you live out of God's will and you follow sin, you're going to reap it. God's going to lay the rod on you. You're going to die before your time. And you're going to be dealt with. Folks, I know what I'm talking about. You cannot lose your salvation once you've been saved. The Bible talks about that. We've been quickened and made alive. He's perfected us forever. Them that are sanctified, we've been sanctified. It's talked about in the book of Jude. We've been sanctified by the Lord Jesus Christ, preserved in Christ Jesus. We'll never die. We'll never go to hell. Once I leave this body, just plain to me, then we'll be with the Lord. I'm looking forward to that glorious daybreak of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not so sleeping. Once you die, does it mean that your soul goes by the grave and it sleeps there until the resurrection day? Not so. Not so at all. The Bible talks about that. The absence from the body means being present with the Lord. And the rich man in hell lifted up his eyes and told me, the Bible said, that they came, and his people came, and they took his body, and they buried him. They had a funeral, but his soul was in hell. But the rich man, the beggar, the Bible said the angels came and carried him into Abraham's bosom, which is the top of paradise. See, that's what the Bible has to say. Once you die, there's going to be something going to take place. And people teach that it's not, but you know one day they're going to confess that. They will. And it's not going to be over this radio station, but it's going to be in hell when it's too late. And they're going to say, yes, they were right. Yes. There's a hell. God have mercy, but it's going to be too late to call for mercy then, because the Bible says if you don't get saved here, there's no way. The Bible said rich man of hell lifted his eyes. He said sin lies, he may put his finger in water and put it on my tongue, but he said there's a great God fix. He can't come to you, and you can't go to him. It's settled, it's sealed. There's no exit gates, no fire escapes out of hell. Once you die, once you go to hell, it's settled. And even though you may believe it, you will, because everything's going about, every tongue's going to confess. One day you're going to confess it, but it's going to be too late. Jesus is Lord, but now that you're going to confess, yes, there is a real eternal hell and a fire. God help them. I don't laugh in it. I pity them. My time is coming to go. Rock to us and pray for us. And God bless you in Jesus' name. Amen.