♪ We are the birds that sing, I sing for thee ♪ ♪ And when I'm sorry to die ♪ ♪ We will be the birds that sing for thee ♪ ♪ For the sons of earth and sky ♪ ♪ And the call of death will strike like thunderstrike ♪ It was there to find me, I could see by his sight. Then and now I am happy all the day. I see it in my mind that I have not been grown up on the tree. Oh, It was there, finally, I reached my sight, And now I am happy all the day. I give myself, and it's all that I can do. And it grows, and it grows, where I first saw the light. Then I'll burn it on my own road. I swear by the name I receive, I'll be strong, and I'm alive, and be all the day. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. Daylight. 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Number 100. I have found a friend in Jesus, He's everything to me, He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul. The lily of the valley, hidden alone I see, All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole. In trouble needs my stay. He tells me every care on him to know. He's the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star. He's the parasol ten thousand to my soul. He all my griefs has taken, and all my sorrows borne. And temptation eats my strong and mighty tongue I have fought for and forsaken And all my idols torn From my heart and now He keeps me by His power Though all the world forsake me And Satan till me sore Through Jesus I shall safely reach the goal He's the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star. He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul. He will never, never leave me, nor yet forsake me here. But I'll lend my faith and do His blessed will. I'll walk the path without fear, I've nothing now to fear. With this man of Thee, my hungry soul shall fill. In sleeping eyes before me, to see His blessed face, where the rivers of delight shall ever roll. He's the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star. He's the pharisee of 10,000 My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. He is trampling out the vintage when the grapes of wrath are stored. He enlists the faithful binding of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah! Our God is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps. They have built an ammenal altar in the evening dews and damps. I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Our God is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat. He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat. I will be swift, my soul, to answer him, be jubilant my feet. I've gone and is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, glory, hallelujah! Our God is marching on! In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, with the glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. Our God is marching on! Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Our God is marching on. There's a holy and beautiful city Whose builder men were looting sky John Sutherland descending from heaven When Padmuksin asked how he'd try It's my massive wall, it's of Jasper. The city itself is pure gold. When my frozen tent air is folded, My night shall its glory behold. Have nothing defiling or mean. No pain and no sickness can litter. No crape on the doormob is seen. Personas and cares are forgotten. No tempter is there to annoy No parting words ever are spoken There's nothing to hurt or destroy In that bright city Early, white city I have a mansion A harp and a crown Now I'm watching Waiting and longing For the white city That's soon coming down No heartaches are known in that city No tears ever moisten the eye. There's no disappointment in heaven. No envy and strife in the sky. The saints are all sanctified holy. They live in sweet harmony. My heart is now set on that city And someday its blessings I'll share My loved ones are gathering yonder My friends too are passing away And soon I shall join their bright number And dwell in eternity's day They're safe now in glory with Jesus Their trials and battles are past They overcame sin and the tempter They've reached that fair city at last In that bright city, pearly white city, I have a mansion, a hub and a crown. Now I'm watching, waiting and longing for the white city that's soon coming down for the white city that's soon coming down a little bit but this is the same chords the same capo everything so I'm growing cold. Seems I'm losing hope. Going down this road. So many twists and turns. Sometimes it's hard to push on. With all the life throws. And sometimes I'm not sure. I keep pressing on But think of his hands And think of those scars And think of our king Wearing a crown of thorns So deny yourself And take up your cross When you want to give up Think of those scars. All is going well. I pray every night. Gotta pay those bills. Been working overtime. Yeah, I'm living that dream. Been living my best life. But I can't make it to church. I just don't have time But think of his hands And think of his scars And think of our king Wearing a crown of thorns So deny yourself And take up your cross When you want to give in Think of those scars. But think of his hands. And think of those scars. And think of our When you want to give in, when you're living it up, just think of those scars. When you want to give in, when you're living it up, just think of those scars. Amen. Nice. I get that. I get that pretty easy. Makes me a little longer. Appreciate that. There is a name I want to hear. I want to sing His word. It sounds like music in my ears. The sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. How I love Jesus because he cursed me. It tells me of a sinner's love who died to set me free. It tells me of his precious blood. The sinner's perfectly clean. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus! Oh, how I love Jesus! Because He first loved me. It tells me what my Father had in store for every day. And though I tread on docile paths, Oh, how I love Jesus! Oh, how I love Jesus! Oh, how I love Jesus! Because He burns for me. He tells the Lord His loving heart. can't feel my deepest woe. In each sorrow there's a part that none can bear below. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I see. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, have I loved Jesus? Oh, have I loved Jesus? Because he first loved me. Amen. Amen. Thank the Lord for the good singing. Thank the Lord for the good time of fellowship we've already had. Now we've come to the part where the Word of God is about to be opened up. The Word of God being the very breath of Almighty as it is penned upon paper. And I pray tonight that that Word will find lodgment in all of our hearts. Whether you're here and you're lost, whether you're saved and on your way to heaven, I know that God's Word will always find its mark and I pray that God will bless even here tonight. We're going to go back to the Lord in prayer and ask God's blessing upon Brother Kiger as he comes once more. Praying the Lord will bless him, fill him with power, demonstration of the Holy Spirit. May God truly bless you is our prayer. Brother Jeremy, could you do that for us, please? Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we are so happy to see you. We're so thankful for your time and worship. Lord, would you pray for each and every one of us here tonight? the wisdom and understanding we need to draw closer to you. We pray that in the presence of the Lord that you may be lost. We pray that you open our eyes to the eternal need of salvation. We pray that you save our souls. We pray for Brother Cuybers. We pray that you give him the remembrance of his studies. We pray that you give him the clearness of mind and the ability to speak. We pray that you just bless him. Amen. Thank you, my precious pastor. Appreciate you very much. Well, I would say again, it's so much honor, such a great honor to be again with you. I feel humbled and worthless But I thank God that he is gracious. So I thought tonight, mine went back to almost 50 years ago when I met Brother Dan Stepp. And I don't know, I won't say how long it's been since Sister Rule and I met, but it's been a while. And so anyway. And many of you, it is our first time. And I'm honored by that. I thank God for your kindnesses, your friendship, and all that you've shown me with your great smile, wonderful singing, and everything that has gone into the time that God's been blessed to spend with the Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church. And I pray that he may help us again tonight and use us as only he can. For I promise you, if there's anyone in this world that knows this to be a fact, Without Him, I can do nothing. So do pray. I know that's true. John chapter 4, Gospel of John chapter number 4. I read beginning in verse 1, When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples, he left Judea and departed into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. That was not the most direct route. And it was not a section that any Jew would really want to go to and spend time in. Because there was an alienation that existed between the Samaritans and the Orthodox Jews, especially the two tribes of the South, Judah and Benjamin. But these Samaritans were among those that followed Jeroboam at the splitting of the kingdom after Solomon's death. And he had raised the golden calf as a place of worship in the upper country of Dan, northern Israel, and then another about a little north of Jerusalem, probably 30 miles or so, to make it more convenient a religion. And then the Assyrians, or who we know as Syria today, came down and swept over those ten tribes. And they became what is often referred to as the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. We, nor they, do not know what their ancestry is because it became so mixed with Gentiles that there was this enmity that existed between the majority and especially of the scribes and Pharisees and the religious sects of Orthodox Jews. They wanted nothing to do with the inhabitants of Samaria or even other parts of Israel during those days. But, Jesus knew that it was the will of His Father Because he must, I want you to remember that four letter word, it has nothing to do with sermon, go through Samaria. It was not accidental, not coincidental, it was an absolute must, go through Samaria. And then he comes to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar. near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's will was there. Now I'm not going to deal with this, but I wish you would note how meticulous our God is in specifying how he must be in this Samaritan country how He must be in this parcel of land, how He must be in the city or outskirts of the city of Sychar, and why He must be at this particular well. And God even named it before the world began, for God's Word is settled how long? Forever in heaven. It did not come into existence when God inspired the holy men to ride as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. It is as eternal as God is. And it is everlasting as God is. So these things were precisely set and ordained of Almighty God. And Jesus who always did that which was the Father's will was there because it was the Father's will that He be there. This is laid out Jacob's whale was there and being reared with his journey. Isn't it amazing how he got tired just at the time that there happened to be a whale right there? He could kind of have a little place to sit down on some rocks and not have to just sit down in the sand and desert. Being reared with his journey set us on the whale and it was about the sixth hour. The end of the second daily watch. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat or food. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman, number one, second, of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, you hear tonight and do not know the cleansing power of sin by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. That faith to know that to trust that is the gift of God. And that's what he's talking about right here. If thou knowest. If you're here tonight and don't know that, you really need to listen to this story. Because it tells of the salvation of a Samaritan woman who was an outcast for many reasons, but she was one that Jesus loved and he was going through Samaria or whatever to see her, meet her, and share with her the glorious good news that Jesus saves. And who it is, he's saying here, if you knew what the gift of God is, if you knew who is speaking to you, if you knew who I am, and who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. And how many believe that? I know it's written, but I mean how many believe that? There's such a thing as a theological belief, and there's another thing called experimental belief. And that's what we really need, is something that we live. Not what we learn if we don't live it. Let our walk match our talk. and be the kind of an individual that really knows and trusts and believes that Jesus Christ is able to save to the uttermost, no matter who they are, no matter what they've done. Here is a woman that has been married seven times. Now, we'd kind of look down on somebody like that, wouldn't we? And I don't believe all those husbands had died. And based on what we learn about her here, we soon see that she was living with a man that she wasn't married to. Well, I'm telling you, this is one of the offshoring of the earth, that we wouldn't even go to a place like that or a person like that. Defile our garments? What in the world are you talking about? We don't want to go where sinners are. That's what we've become. The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw water, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water? She did not understand. And do you know why? Because she had never experienced a new birth, never known what it was to be able to understand the things of God. Never to understand that it doesn't matter what I have done, how many times I have done it, how guilty I am, how deep in sin I've been, nor how few sins I think I've committed. It doesn't take a boatload to condemn you to hell. How many did Adam and Eve sin? How many did they transgress? Just one. The only law gave them was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is in the center of the garden of Eden, thou shalt not eat. And then do you know what he told them then? He said, I know you're going to. You say, no, it doesn't say that. Well, he said, for in the day that thou eatest thereof. He told them right then, there's going to be a day when you're going to eat of it. I know you will. Thou shalt surely die. And I believe that they did die that day, that second. that they sinned against the holy God who created them and gave them everything, inclusive of the utopia that they were in, having provided them with the best of everything. But the lust of the eyes, the pride of the flesh, and the lust of the pride of life got a hold of them, and they decided, that's better than what we got. and they sinned. And as a result, spiritual death fell upon Adam and Eve. And every descendant of the seed of Adam that has ever made a footprint on the face of this earth or ever shall put a footprint on the face of this earth or has been conceived and aborted or miscarried or whatever else, every one, bears that same spiritual death in them that Adam and Eve received the moment that they disobeyed God. Now if you're here today and don't know Jesus Christ, that's where you're at. You say, I don't understand that preacher. I know you don't. We're not called upon to understand when God saves us. I don't believe we need to have a theologian who can quote all of the doctrines and line everything up and then save. Matter of fact, I don't think you can understand the things of the Spirit of God, until God has saved your soul, because they are foolishness unto you, and you cannot discern them or understand them. Sir, why, you just give me this, living water. Whence hast thou that living water? Out there greater than our father Jacob. Now you see this? You know who Jacob was, right? He's Israel. is the father of the beginning of what became his twelve sons, the nation of Israel, the twelve tribes of Israel. She's the descendant. She calls him, my father, here. Our father, Jacob, which giveth this well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle, Jesus answered and said unto them, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. And I know that's true. You do too, don't you? Get you a drink of water before you go to bed tonight, and then don't drink any more for next month. See how you get along. You just got to come back and come back and come back. Because that's physical things. And that's what she was thinking. That's what she came for. And that's where her mind was centered around. Whosoever drinketh first fourteen, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give them shall never thirst, But the water that I shall give him shall be in him as a well of water springing up into everlasting life. And that's the only kind I want. I don't want some kind of salvation that I can get rid of tomorrow just because I didn't do exactly everything right. I like the one God gives, eternal life. And that's the only kind God gives because that's the only kind He's got. He is the eternal God. He can't give anything besides eternal life, because that's the only life He has. The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. She still did not understand. Listen to Jesus. She didn't understand. Here's this water. She saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said unto her, I have no husband. And Jesus said unto her, Thou hast said well, you've told the truth. I have no husband, for thou hast had five. I said seven, but sorry, that's five. And he whom thou now hast, now the one man that you're now living with, is not your husband. In that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive the tower of the prophet. Now she still sees him as a man. Our Father worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where ye men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet in Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship ye know not what. We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship Him." Has he stopped here tonight? Or is your mind embedded, concentrated, set, and is settled on spiritual things? on the things we've got. You got rabbits running through your mind. What's going to happen? Wonder what's going on right now. Tell you why. You know what? You can't change a thing. So don't worry about it. I'm telling you, it really won't make much difference now. If I'm wrong about that, you look me up in a thousand years and tell me and I'll apologize. But compared to the spiritual matters that we deal with and have come together for tonight, the whole state of Kentucky, the whole United States of America, means nothing compared to one soul. So, let's be That individual, that church, where Jesus finds people who worship Him in spirit and in truth. Verse 24, God is a spirit and they that worship Him, here's that same four letter word again, I'd like the little words of God's Word. Must. Does not say it would be good. Does not say better. Doesn't even say best. He said, this is a must. You can't worship God any other way. You can't worship God through heresy. You can't worship God without the power of the Spirit. It can't be done. Then the woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah is coming. Now listen to that. What did she say? I know God's made a lot of promises in the Old Testament and there was a lot of pictures and there was a lot of things that showed and foreshadowed that there would be one coming who would save. She's beginning to begin to think the right way. And if you're here and don't know Jesus Christ tonight, think this way. God promised. that He would send one who could save you from your sins by becoming like you, yet without any sin of His own. When He has come, which is called Christ, when He has come, He will tell us all things. That's another key phrase here. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. Now do you believe Jesus lied? It's just a simple question. He said, I am that promised Messiah. I am that Christ. I am the fulfillment of every prophecy, every type, every shadow, everything that you did that pointed to God's promise. Say, I'm Him. Now do you believe the Word of God is true? That's what it says. Read it. Verse 26, I that speak unto thee am Him. Am He. And upon this came His disciples and marveled that He talked with the woman, yet no man saith what seeketh thou or might talkest thou with her. And now I've just got my text and I'm not going to be able to preach it. Then the woman then left her water pot and went her way into the city, and saith unto the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did. I do not know if you believe this. I really don't know if you know this, but everything that I, you, or any other being in the totality of God's creation. He knows everything about us. He knows everything we've done. He knows every word we've said. Now, wait a minute. He knows every thought that has ever crossed our mind. Think about that. That high and holy One who setteth upon the throne in heaven knows you and me and every thought that's ever been in your mind. Everything that you've ever done. Every word you've ever said. He knows it. Come see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? Now this woman has had some kind of change about her, hasn't she? When she got there, she says, I don't even know. All I want to do is if you've got some kind of water that's magical enough to keep me from ever thirsting again, I sure am tired of coming here to draw water. If you'll just bring me some of that water, I'll drink it. Well, the water that Jesus spoke of was himself, the water of life. the water of salvation, the water of eternal blessings and joy and happiness on this earth and on another. I want to just get right on into it now. There is an engrossing nature of this conversion. To meet Christ will cause ordinary events to shrink into insignificance This woman came to the well of Jacob simply to draw a water bucket of water. That's all she came for. But what happened? She met the promised Messiah. She met the Savior. Maybe tonight you came and you had some purpose in mind besides that. But maybe God has opened your mind to let you know, hey, I know you. I know what you've done. Nobody knows. You think it was secret. I hid it. But you can't hide it from me. That's what God says. You better take that to heart because you're going to face Him. Just as sure as you're who you are and I'm who I am, you're going to face God. You better be prepared. There is an ordinary event that calls extraordinary and made that which with man is impossible to be possible through the omnipotence of God. Omnipotence just means all the power. It's all it means. Big ol' words just simply means God's got all the power. Everything in the world is His. God's as long as it's His. And He has said that there is salvation in no name given under heaven except in the name Jesus Christ. And do you know why? Because He is God who became man. and took upon Him the likeness of our flesh, as I said before, without committing any sin, He lived here. And He obeyed every jot and tittle of the ceremonial and of the civil and of the commandment law of God. He never, never failed, but He did always that which pleased His Father. That's all He did. So He could say, I am that promised Messiah. I am that promised Savior. I am the Christ. This woman, what I want you to see more than anything else, verse 28, she left her water pot. Now that's really the message. Because there's a message in leaving that water pot at the well. in the person of his son Jesus Christ, had met with her, spoke with her, revealed the knowledge of her sin by causing her to know that he knew her life and what she'd done. And he tells her there's a remedy and a hope for that. Now, one of the Identifying distinctives of the Christ and the Messiah was that he would know everything. He would know you. He would know everything about you. And this woman knew who he was because of what he said and told of her life. He wasn't a fortune teller. He wasn't reading cards or palms or Ouija boards. Substance foolishness is that that's all seeing all the devil and Christian all not to be as far He's all be as far away as that as the buzzer did for my ice cream cone Shouldn't have anything do it But God he was God he knew he wasn't guessing he knew And we're whoever you are whatever you think he knows you tonight just like he knows me He knows everything we ever did The woman left her water pot because the things of this world suddenly became dim and inconsequential. I said, wait a minute, what did you come here for? Well, I got more than I come for. I come for just a little water that would help me for a little while, then I have to do it again, then I have to do it again, then I have to do it again. was one of those that lasted me all my life on earth and all the way through eternity that will never cease producing, listen to me, living waters that flow out of us as God's children. I in particular tonight noticed the sign up at the some road we turned in and it said, What is it, men? Missionary Baptist Church. I even looked on the front of the building when we came in. You know what it says? Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church. This woman was a missionary. You say, I don't like that. Well, it's the truth. She went and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. She went to the men of the city. I expect that even the women of Samaria would have nothing to do with her. Five husbands are now shacking up with somebody else, another man. She can't imagine how those self-righteous people would look on her, and especially the women. They would want their husbands to get within a quarter of a mile of her. But Jesus knew what she was before she came and he didn't shun her. I want you to think about this. The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was a friend of publicans and sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ came to call the sinners. right unto repentance, not those who are self-righteous. God has never saved anything but a sinner. And if you tonight do not know how guilty you really are before God because He knows you, then you just are not saved. And that's the message this woman took to the man. You read it. I'm not going to read all of it. You go on down. And you find out, she said, I think she just completely forgot why she came. Think about this. Just think about this. Think back for just a moment to when God saved your soul. Can you remember that event? What did you do the next day? Well, I can only answer for myself. You know what I did? I had a grandfather, the only one I ever knew. He was the only grandparent I ever really knew. Every time we went to their home, which wasn't much, but every time we went to his home, he was sitting either in the house or on the front porch reading the Bible. Every time I went. Never saw him without that. Till we got there at least. And he would talk to me. And tell me things kind of like I'm trying to tell you tonight. But I didn't understand a thing about it. And I know that godly man prayed for me. The night God saved my soul, the next morning, oh yeah, I had to go to work. But I had something more important to do than go to work. I had to go tell about the boy and say what had happened to me. Was she like that? Did you want to go tell what Jesus had done? Then I went down there and my granddad, that time he was out in the field out there just plowing. He was up in his eighties then and he was out there just working in the field. I went out to him and I said, Grandpa, something's happened to me. And he just stopped and looked at me and just started crying. Yeah. I said, no, it's not bad. He said, I know it. It's so good that it's breaking my heart. He said, that don't sound right. How can it be? Because he prayed that that moment would come. And I had to tell him, I had the honor of telling him, God saved my soul last night. And I'm going to heaven. And I was as dumb about everything else in God's Word as any person could possibly be. A truth. The first time that, to my knowledge, the first time I ever set foot in any type of a religious assembly was at my own father's funeral. I don't think I went back again until after I was married. Judy was saved. No, she shouldn't have married me. But I sure am glad she did. Because she just badgered me to pieces. Wanting to go to church. That's all I ever, that seemed like that's all I heard from her. Why don't we go to church, son? Well, we'll see. And then lo and behold, here's the worst thing. Imagine somebody saving someone at the job I was working at, my closest friend. God saved him. a little old place called Community Baptist Church in Louisville, North Carolina, and shoot it. As soon as I come into work, he started in on me. Come to church with me. I go home from where I did it. Why don't we go to church? I said, phew, wait. Oh, I can't go home. I can't go to work. Now I'm being aggravated. Maybe I'll just go to church and it'll be easier and at least put in an hour and I won't have to eat it the rest of the week. That's the truth. That's how I felt. Out of reasoning and logically. Maybe some of you young people here are saying, well, I'm not here because I want to be. I wasn't either. God's Word says that we were found of them who sought Him not, by him who sought Him not. You don't have to be looking for God. This woman wasn't either. She'd come and get a bottle of water. But God gave her more. I went to church, and I found out, you know, them folks wasn't so awfully bad after all. So I said, well, that's okay. If you want to go, we'll go. And we started going. I was saved in this. Every head valve, every eye closed. Nobody looking around now. If you're out there and lost, if you just lift that hand up, I'm not going to embarrass you. I preached this, as a matter of fact, before I learned anything about the truth. All I want to do is pray for you. And I heard that for about two months. I don't know exactly, but around two months. And then finally that pastor says, well, I've done everything I know how to do. I'm just going to open the doors of the church. If any of you want to join, come on up here and we'll receive his members into this church. So I looked over at Judy and I said, well, honey, would you like to join? She said, yeah. I said, OK, let's go. Now, I was just as lost as I'd ever been. He talked to her. Are you saved? Yes. Were you baptized? Yes. OK, we'll receive you. He turned to me and he said, are you saved? I said, man, for two months plus you've been asking that question every time I come in the door. And before I could leave, I raised my hand every time. If you don't know I'm lost, you're blind. That's what I thought. And then he asked me a question. Do you want to be saved? Do you know what? I didn't know what he meant. That's the truth before God. I did not know what saved meant. I didn't know what washed in the blood meant. All I'd ever washed in was water. I didn't know anything about that." And he says, well, now watch this. He said, well, obviously you do or you wouldn't be up here. Yeah. He said, kneel down here with me and repeat the things that I say. And he opened his Bible right there, and in front of him, he read, you know, Romans 3, or all of sin come short of the glory of God, you know, and get on over where the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And you get over here, you know, whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, and whosoever professeth Him with his mouth, you know, and he went through all of that with me. He said, now do you believe that? I mean, it's right there in the Bible. I never doubted whether the Bible was true. I just didn't know it existed. So I said, yeah, I believe that. I believed that just like I believed George Washington was the president of the United States because I read the book. That Bible meant no more to me than the history book. Now that man meant well, but he stood up and he told me, you're saved. And I said, thank you. I mean it, I did. Because as far as I was concerned, he had saved me. He told me I was saved. But you know what I was? Lost. Lost. But there come another time in that same building. And they did a whole lot of singing at the end of it and a whole lot of begging and a whole lot of sad stories and a whole lot of crying and all this kind of stuff. But there come a night when I was sitting back there I would have been in the seat behind Matthew's step. I would have been further back, but the rest of them was already taken. You know, at Baptist Church, you're going to have to get your heart to get back seat. I was sitting right there and a man preached. Jesus Christ shed his blood because he loved you. He loved a world of lost sinners. God did so much. Yeah, He knew what they did. He knew every thought about them. But He provided the perfect one to solve and settle their sin problem. And He told me that Jesus shed His blood. He had thorns on His head. His back had been beaten till the bones were visible. That His hands were nailed by spikes to a cross. His feet were nailed. There had been a spear thrust in his side. And that blood that he shed, because it was perfectly pure, sinless, had power that no other blood could ever have. It had power to cleanse even me. from my sin. You say, did you understand that? Not exactly, but I believed it. You know, God doesn't say, are you indoctrinated? He just said, do you believe me? This woman went back and said, come see a man that told me all that ever I did. I'm here tonight to tell you that I want to bring you to a man that knows everything you ever did. The empowering of the Holy Spirit filled her, that's the second point, and the third one is the emancipation of a lost sinner by a glorious Savior. That's what happened to me. And I say that with all that I see and the spirit that I feel, it's most of you tonight, but probably not everyone, too many here, for everybody to know the blood of Jesus Christ was just flowed out of his body to cover, cleanse your sin. And that just simple faith, just believing God's promise that he'll forgive you if you'll just trust Jesus Christ. Turn from the sin. Hate it. Hore it. Stay away from it. Stay away from it. You read through here, I hope this may be the last time I'll ever be here, but I'm going to do it anyway. If you happen to be one who thinks that the only way anybody can be saved is by hearing the gospel from an ordained Baptist preacher, I've got news for you. That woman weren't one. But if you read it, you'll find out that there was many who believed on him because of her word. Her word. Listen to me for a little bit. And Jesus had a church then too, by the way. He already called his disciples. They were already with him. They had just gone into the city to buy food. Don't you remember reading that? Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church. Is that missionary a doctrine or a practice? He said, well preacher, I'm a woman. Guess what? This one was too. Well preacher, I don't know what to say. She didn't either. You know what she said? I'll just tell you what. He was able to tell me everything I ever did. And is that not the Christ? You don't have to know everything there is to know. Why don't you just tell them what He did for you? to you, what change it brought. I would just ask you, individually, are you truly missionary? In life and action, not just in doctrine and in theology, but experimentally. We take the name off the wall, off the sign, I don't want to hear about how many missionaries you support. That's a good work. That's a great work. And glory to God, keep doing it if you're doing it and do what you can. But don't you think for one second that God only expects you to send money to somewhere else to do your job. That's a wonderful thing, but it doesn't relieve us from our personal responsibility to do what this woman did. The sad thing about this issue is, when God saved me, I thought all I got to do is tell someone about Jesus and all this plot, like blackbirds to a pie. But soon, reality knocked that joy out of me. Let me tell you something. We are not responsible for the results, just the sowing. That's it. Just the sowing. Somebody else may come along and water, but only God can make it grow, give an increase. Tonight, do you know the one who knows everything about you? Isn't this not the Christ Jesus? Is this not Jesus? Oh, yes it is. You can trust Him, my brother. You know one thing about the church, that's a going church is, I mean that's one. One thing I want to always make sure, is that we live in the work of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit. He's the one that does the saving. He's like Mother Kyra said, all we're supposed to do That is the responsibility of this church. Not just the pastor, but the church. And I thank the Lord for reminding me of that. May the Lord continue to bless this body. May the Lord continue to save souls as He sees fit. And again, the salvation of the soul is not up to the individual person. That's all in the hands of the Lord. But salvation is teaching. Preaching the glorious gospel is what the church was commissioned to do. May the Lord indeed bless that. Brother, you tell them we're having a closing hymn to thank God's blessing upon the message. You know what, I tell you what, I love to hear the word of God being brought forth in such a way that it makes a difference before your eyes. And I thank you, my brother. I hope it's all the same for us. Well, let's go to number 45. Number 45. ♪ There's no doubt in the pride ♪ ♪ Every star, star, wonder working out ♪ ♪ Is the brightest spot on the land ♪ ♪ Every star, star, wonder working out ♪ ♪ Is the brightest spot on the land ♪ ♪ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine ♪ There's a lot of people in the classroom, a lot of people in the classroom. Some boring things seem to fill up every slide. There's a lot of people down in the hall. And there's a lot of people in the classroom, looking around in the hall. There's a lot of students in the classroom. I want to thank you Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church for this great privilege and honor. to get to meet somebody for the first time. It is not the last, unless you're on the side of me, it might be. If you're here tonight and don't know about that privilege of blood, it means I'm not here to see you, you're not here to see me. If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, there is nothing in heaven for you, except what it took for me to get to you. Amen. That's right. I love you all very much. and get that same spirit in the Lord's church wherever I go. And I've always been concerned about the place I've never been and never reached. I'm going to thank God for it. And I guess that's what I'm going to do today. Give much prayer for Brother Conker. He's going to be driving back home tonight. Praise the Lord and give him a journey of mercy. Pray the Lord to watch over him in his travels. great the church family down there but do be back tomorrow night and again we sure appreciate our visit I pray that God will just bless him and have another great, great evening in the Lord. But until we do begin, I do pray for the Lord's faithful to shine upon them. I pray that it's not about you and your family, but I do pray most of all, if you're here, you've never been saved, but God has made you a savior. Oh, what a savior. We need to know you. May God bless you. Father, we do come before you once again, so very thankful to come into your house again, and Lord, we've been humbled by your word this evening. Lord, we're brought back to the point of remembering when you consented to come and save us. Lord, I'm so thankful you must lead us through Jackson County, West Virginia to find a dirty rotten sinner there. Lord, I thank you for saving me from my sins. Thank you for showing me my sins, and showing me that the only remedy is that power that comes from the blood of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lord, for your mercy and your grace. Thank you for this church and the desire for revival. And, Lord, we ask for your will, Lord, to answer that prayer that we did for revival and souls saved, souls enriched in the Word of God, and souls brought back to that point again in the love of Jesus, because he Brothers touched upon that, touched upon that this evening about those storms. Lord, we just thank you so much for the suffering for us. Lord, we just, it seems like we run from something. It seems like we run to be a witness that we ought to be missionaries, we ought to, Lord, just give us courage and help us to think about those storms. And think about the work that Jesus did. Draw our hearts and minds back to really important things in this life and this world. They all center around you and your children. Lord, help us be faithful to you because you've always been so faithful to us. Lord, I ask you to be the prayer request upon our hearts, particularly with Lois this evening, Lord, and Brother Gene's son. Just watch over him. Give him medicine. we can make them to you lord i trust you i love you we thank the lord that you're that great omnipotent sovereign god who takes care of all this he blesses church here let's put john as he leads this flock your safety. You've moved my life. In Jesus' precious name, amen.