Because you know why I know it's from God? Because it's all in the Bible. I want you to think about what we're going to talk about. And I want you to receive you. Thank you. Thank you. That was good. I like a passionate person. I like someone who's not a phony. I like someone who's real. Amen. You know what I am? I'm a no good, rotten, wretched sinner saved by the amazing grace of God. I don't belong in heaven. I don't deserve his love and his goodness, but yet he gives it to me. I deserve to be in hell forever and ever and ever, but I'm not going. So therefore, thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. I had nothing to do with it. I don't, there's nothing I can do for it. Amen. So all I can do is appreciate it and give God the thanks. And that's what I want you to think about something today. Mark chapter two, let me know when you're there. I'm gonna try to get through this. Where's that baby going? That baby can't leave. Get that baby up here. You gotta see that baby, little Abigail, she's the cutest baby. Amen. Mark chapter two, are you all there? I want you to look at me in verse 17. It says, when Jesus heard it, he said unto them, they that are whole have no need of the physician. but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. I want you to think about that, what he just said. Brian, turn me down, I got a ring. He says, they that are whole do not need, they have no need of the physician. The Bible calls Jesus our great physician. He is the healer, amen? And when you think about those that are whole do not need Jesus. Those that are whole, what does it mean to be whole? It means that you're perfect. It means you have no problems whatsoever. There's nothing wrong with you. You're complete. I don't know about you, but that ain't me. I'm sick. And that's what he said. I come for those that are sick. And look what else he says. He says, they that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick. He says, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. I don't know about you, but he came to save me because I'm a sick sinner. It's hard to believe that some people actually don't realize how sick they are. The title of the message, by the way, is, are you sick? And are you sick? And there's a whole lot of different degrees. I can go with that one. But we're just going to try to stay on track on the one. When He says those that are whole, He means those that are complete. Those that don't need anything. Those that are perfect. Those that have no need of the great physician. You know, God sent His Son to this earth to call some certain people. He said, I didn't come to call the righteous. So if you're whole, He didn't come for you. If you're righteous, He's not calling you. I want you to think about that. Because there's so many people that believe they're not sick. There's so many people that believe I'm all right. There's so many people that do not believe that they are sick. You know what makes you sick? Sin makes you sick. Sin makes you sick and sickening in the eyes of God. And you become a festering puss. We'll look at that in a second. I know you love to hear that one. But those who believe they're also righteous, they don't believe they're sick and they don't believe that they need repentance. And that's a shame, Tony, because I'll tell you right now, if you don't think you need to repent, that means you're saying to God, I'm righteous. I'm righteous, I don't need repentance. In Luke 15, verse seven, it says that there is many, actually most, that really believe that they need no repentance. It says, I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repents. More than over 99 just people, persons which need no repentance. I have not yet met someone, I have not yet met the person that doesn't need repentance. But when one person comes, and truly turns their heart to God and repents, there's joy in heaven. There's joy actually in the presence of the angels, the Bible says. In Romans 3.10, it says that there is none righteous, no, not one. How many people are righteous? None. How many people are righteous? None. How about one of you? None. And that's the whole point to the message of Jesus saying, I didn't come to call the righteous. I didn't come for those that think they're okay. I didn't come for those that think they're good. I came for sinners. Apostle Paul, you're going to read, said, I'm the chiefest of sinners. David said, I am a worm. I'm a maggot. David. See, the closer you get to God, the more you see who you really are. The closer you get to God, the bigger He gets and the smaller you get. The farther you get away from God, the bigger you get and the smaller He gets. In Romans chapter 3, where we just were, Romans 3 verses 10 to 12, if you want to turn there, I don't know if he's going to put it up, but it says, as it is written, there is none righteous. No, no, not even one. There is none that understandeth. There is none that seeketh after God. They are all going out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that do it good. No, not one. So I want you to think when people, when you think about yourself and say, I'm a good person, God says, no one's good. Well, I'm a good person. I don't, you know, steal and rob and kill. There's none righteous. No, not one. I love how he puts that. He says, there's none righteous. And he goes, no, not one. Cause you know, there's always that one person. You know that one person, well not me, I'm not like them. Well, that's exactly the people that he's talking about in the scriptures where we just read. Jesus is going into this man Levi's house. He's a publican. He's a tax collector, just like Matthew was. And he goes to him and he said, hey, follow me. And he gets up and he follows Jesus and they go to his house and all sinners and publicans end up in the whole house. Kind of like this room right now. except they knew. And so Jesus is there eating with them. But the righteous people and the people that think that they're so good, they go, he's eating with a bunch of sinners. Doesn't he know what kind of people they are? And Jesus heard it. He said, those that are whole don't need a physician, have no need of a physician. I want you to think about that because there's people in this room that think they don't, they won't say it. And their thoughts really aren't there yet. That's why I'm hoping that it brings it together that you think I don't need Jesus. I don't need Him. There's no need for Him. Because I'm alright. I'm saved. I'm okay. I'll tell you right now, I need Jesus every hour. That's not even true. I need Jesus every half hour. I need Jesus every minute, brother. Amen. You know why? Because I know I'm sick. I know I'm sick. The only rodent here that's good is Larry. Right, Larry? Say, I know, Larry. That's why I can say it. Larry's worse than me. No, that's not true. I'm the worst. Are you sick? Are you a sinner? And that's what Jesus said, I've come for you. I've come to heal you. I've come to save you. Brian, turn me down, I'm ringing a little bit. I want you to think about these verses that we're gonna read in a minute. But when it tells you in Romans chapter three, verse 23, it says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. For all, Mother Teresa even, everybody. Everybody, see, I and Larry, we're the only ones in here probably, but we came really far. Like if we die, we're so far from God. We can't get there. We're really far away. But there's some of you here that are way better than us, like Linda and Steve. They're sinners, but they're way better than us. And so they've done so much good in their life. And when they die, they're going to be closer, but they still fall short. Everyone's a sinner and everyone falls short. And that's why he tells us, he said, there's none that understands. There's none that seeketh after God. For all have become unprofitable. And when it says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, let me ask you a question. If there's none righteous, I wanna know where's the righteous? Where are they? I can't find them. I looked in the phone book. They weren't there. I looked in my phone and all that. They weren't there. I looked on Facebook. They weren't there. I looked on YouTube. They weren't there either. So I said, I'm going to come to church and look in the church. Eww. Bunch of sick people. They're not here either because there's none righteous. No, not one. And if I want to see someone that is sick and I want to see someone that's unrighteous, I just have to look in the mirror. And when I wake up in the morning and I look in the mirror, Brother Joe, I look at that guy in the mirror and say, what are you up to today? What are you going to do today against my Savior, my Lord? In Mark chapter 2 verse 15, well you don't have to turn there, we just talked about it. But when He's there eating and drinking with the sinners, He comes to heal. He comes to save. He isn't coming for those that think they don't need Him. He's not coming for the religious crowd. He's not coming for the people that think they're alright. He's coming for the people that are sick and sinners. And I thank God that I know who I am. I thank God that I know that I'm sick and I know that I'm a sinner. In 1 Timothy 1.15, great, great verse, it says, This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. That means worthy for everyone to accept it. That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of whom I am chief. Apostle Paul said. Apostle Paul, yeah, me too, you're hot too? Amen. Me too, I put on, you know what I have that you don't have? I have air conditioning right there, amen. I turned it off because I knew she was gonna come up and was freezing up here, but I'm gonna cool it down a little bit. These poor ladies are gonna freeze. You okay over here? You sure? She's not okay, we're gonna keep it off now, amen. I know that look, amen, praise the Lord. I know that look, I'm mm-mm. That's why they sit there, the heat goes right on. When he says it's worthy of all acceptation to accept that Jesus Christ came for sinners. And if you don't know Jesus because you think you're all right, you don't know Jesus, you think I'm okay. In other words, he said those that are whole have no need. Can you imagine Zach thinking I don't need Jesus? That's crazy when you think about it. In Matthew 1.23, it says, well, before we get there, the name Jesus, just his name means Jehovah who saves. It means the Lord who saves. You know, Yahshua is the same as Joshua, which means the same name as Jesus. It means the Lord who saves. I need the Lord who saves. Amen. You know, when I think of Yeshua, I think of Jehovah will save. And that's what everyone in the Old Testament, they knew Jehovah was the Lord and they knew that one day he would save us. It says in Matthew 1.23, it says, a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God is with us. So I don't know about you, but if you think you're righteous, that means you think you're equal with God. If you think you're whole and perfect, that means you're equal with God. How far away are we from that? Seriously, think about that. God sent his son. Amen. God sent his son to call sinners. God sent his son to heal those who are sick. I thank God that I realize I'm sick and I need healing. In Romans 4, chapter 8, we read this. I'm sorry, Romans chapter 4 verse 8, it says this, it says, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, that means Jews, or upon the uncircumcised only? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. It was reckoned unto him. That means it was given to him. Matter of fact, it goes on to say this. It says, how was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision, not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised. Listen to this, that the righteousness of God might be imputed unto them also. You see, he's righteous. He's perfect. I'm sick and I'm a sinner. I hear the gospel message, the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ came to save sinners of whom I am one. Anyone else one? He says, I've come to heal the broken hearted. Anyone else had a broken heart? Anyone been sick? Meaning in your mind, in your body, in your spirit, in your soul, I need healing. I find out that he's the healer. And I find out and I believe that I come to him. And you know what he does? He takes my sin. He takes my sickness and he gives me his righteousness. We got a swap going on. Hey man, we got a swap. I'm like, hey honey, I'll tell you what. I'm going to give you this really nice little throat lozenge. I want money. No. I'm going to give you this really nice throat lozenge and you're going to give me a hundred bucks in exchange. No. What do you mean no? Here you go. That's not even close. All my sicknesses, all my diseases, all my filthiness, all my sin, he takes it from me. And He gives me all His righteousness in return. I'm like, what? Who would do that? God. That's what God has done. But you've got to come to Him as you really are. Who's sick? Who's a sinner? Then you need Jesus. If you don't think you're sick and you don't think you're a sinner, then you become Him. He said, those that are whole have no need. They don't need me. And I'm here to tell you right now, it's a scary thing to think that you don't need God. Amen? Righteousness was imputed to imputation. We're going to read that verse in a minute. That means, like I just said, that we come to God with all of our sins and he takes it from us because Jesus died on that cross. Remember that? Jesus took our place on the cross. He took the sin of mankind, all of mankind on the cross, and God killed his own son. Just like he told Abraham to do, to Abraham, give me your son, your only son in whom you love, and offered him the burnt sacrifice. And Abraham took him and put him on the altar and was ready to kill him. And God said, no, Abraham, don't touch him. Now I know you fear me. Because he was showing, I'm going to do that to my son. but I'm not gonna do it just for one, I'm gonna do it for all. Because the whole world is under sin, the whole world is sick. In Romans chapter 10, it's a great chapter, if you wanna go there. In Romans chapter 10, I'm not gonna read the whole chapter, but you sure could, because it's all in there. But in verse one to verse three, it says, brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God is for Israel, is that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. Verse three, pay attention. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. People go about to establish their own righteousness. You know, John, that's what religion does. Religion gets you to go to religion and makes you feel like I'm establishing myself. I'm establishing something about that name. It's a great song. But they go about to establish their own righteousness. I go to church. I'm good. I put money in the plate. I'm a good person. I don't curse. Don't chew. And I don't even go with those who do. I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I don't gamble. I don't even lie. That's a lie. I don't even... And they think so they're establishing their own righteousness. Do you understand that? And that's exactly what he's saying is like, they don't understand God's righteousness because there's none righteous and there's nothing you can do to be righteous. You are lost, you're sick and you're a sinner and you must come to Jesus Christ for salvation. And that's the whole point of the message of the gospel that you need him. He's the only way. He said, I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. No man comes to the Father, but by me. It goes on in Romans chapter 10, and I'm only going to read one or two verses more. It says, but for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It says, how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? That's why I'm up here preaching, hoping and praying that at least one person will get it. At least one person will get saved and all their sins forgiven and they'll be healed. You know how many people are looking for love? Looking to be loved. God is love. The things that you find on this earth between people is lust. Things you find on earth between people can never satisfy you. The love of Christ satisfies you because he truly and honestly loves you. And when you're truly and honestly loved, you feel complete, you feel good, you feel better. When you're lonely, you ever been lonely? Loneliness is terrible. Even God said, it's not good that man should be alone. And so what it is is, but the problem is people start looking to be whole through somebody else. And they start looking and then they end up with this person and that person and this person, and they end up, lost, when really God's the one that wants to come in and wants to fulfill that place and fill that void and heal you of loneliness, heal you of love, heal your sadness, heal your... You know what so many people, they always say, what is God's will for me? But the truth of the matter is, they only say that when they hear a message about it. Every single day, they're looking for purpose in this world. They're looking like, why am I here? I feel empty inside. I love that the Savior comes in and I've never felt empty again. I've never felt alone again. I've never felt unloved again. He's amazing, amazing God. You know, when it tells us that it says they do not understand God's righteousness, so they go about to establish their own righteousness. In Deuteronomy verse 30 and 14, Paul quotes that right here in chapter three and in chapter 10. And he says this, he says, for Moses described the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which does those things shall live in them. And he said, but the righteousness, which is of faith, speaks on this wise. Do not say in your heart who will go to heaven and send into heaven, that is, to bring Christ down from above, or who shall descend into the deep, that is, to bring Christ up again from the dead. But what does it say? The word is near you, nigh you, it's even in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith, which we preach, that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God is risen from the dead, that thou shall be saved. And it goes to say in Deuteronomy, that exact thing. And I'm going to read it for you. And this is where it came from in Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 11 to 14. It says, for this is the commandment, which I commanded thee this day. It's not hidden from you. It's neither is it far off. It says, it's not in heaven that you should say, who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it down to us, that we may hear it and do it. Neither is it beyond the sea that you should say, who shall go over into the sea for us and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it. But the word is very near you. It's even in your mouth and in your heart that you may do it. See, I've set before thee this day life and good and death and evil. If you're sick today, you can be healed today. If you're a sinner today, you can be saved today. You see, I have no righteousness of my own, but He gives me His. You can leave this place righteous, not because of yourself, but because of the gift that He gives you. You can come in a sinner, come in sick and leave healed and leave a righteous person. But knowing the knowledge that it's not me, it's him. Knowing the knowledge that it's none of me, it's all of him. And the truth of the matter is, is the Bible says that the unrighteous shall not inherit the earth. The Bible says that you must be righteous to get into the kingdom. You must be righteous to get into heaven. You must be righteous to have God. How am I ever gonna be righteous? He gives you his righteousness. I'll tell you what, it gets better from here when you think about the things. Proverbs 30 verse four, and you don't have to turn there, but it says, who has ascended into heaven or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fist? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? And the answer is God, God, God, only God. It says, what's his name? Jehovah, God of Israel. What's his son's name? If you can tell. To all our Jewish friends, and I love the Jewish people, I love Israel, I love them. And God loves them. One day they'll all get saved, one day. But right now, they establish their own righteousness. And Catholics, I was Catholic my whole life, I love Catholics. But they go to establish their own righteousness. By doing all the rosary beads and doing everything, I'm right with God. I did this, I took my sacraments, I did this. And you go to the Mormons, and you go to this, and you go to this religion, and you go to that religion. And they all help you to establish your own righteousness, when the truth of the matter is there's none righteous, and you can't be righteous. You can only get it from Jesus Christ. He gives it to you. It's a gift. Thank you is right. You know, the Bible tells us that we're all sinners. We're all sick. We're all gone our own way. We've gone the way that we want to go. In Isaiah 53, it says, we all like sheep have gone astray. Amen. We all have gone our own way. Amen? And that's, and so therefore God has sent his son and laid upon him the iniquity of us all. Jesus Christ is so amazing. He's the only way to heal you. He's the only way to save you. The Bible tells us that there's a transaction that has to take place, a trade. A sinner has to come to the Savior. and believe in Him and call upon Him. And the Savior hears him and takes from him his sin and sickness and gives to him a transaction and gives to him his righteousness. So when God looks at you, He says you're righteous. Now you might not feel righteous, You might not sound righteous, but in God's eyes, you are righteous. Not because of anything that you've done, but because of who you have. He that has the Son has life. When you have Jesus, you have righteousness. When you have Jesus, you have wholeness, you have healing. When you have Jesus, you have joy. When you have Jesus, you have peace. When you have Jesus, you have love. When you have Jesus, you have strength. When you have Jesus, you have every single thing you need. Because He's the one that gives it to you. And what happens is every single day we wake up and we think we don't need Him. We think we don't need Him. Even though you have Him, you think you don't need Him. You don't talk to Him. You don't praise Him. You don't sing to Him. You don't worship Him. You don't read about Him. You don't study about Him. You don't tell people about Him. And then when you're feeling sick and down, you expect Him to be there. I'm here to tell you right now, if you have him, if you can remember a time when you knew you were lost and going to hell and you called upon his name and he saved you, that feeling of salvation, you'll never forget it. I wanna hurry up and get through this, but I want you to think about these verses that we're about to read. In 2 Corinthians chapter five, in verse 21, And if you put that up, Ron, there it is. Look what it says. For he has made him, that's Jesus, to be sin for us. Who knew no sin. He didn't know any sin, but God made him to become our sin. Look what it says. That we might be made the righteousness of God in him. See, he who knew no sin became our sin. He took our sin so that we can have his righteousness. Isn't that amazing? What a transaction. Ephesians chapter four, Brian, Ephesians chapter four in verse 24 says this, and that you put on the new man. Who's the new man? Jesus Christ. You put him on which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. You see what happens is, is I am unrighteous. I'm a sinner. I came to Christ and I said, Jesus, save me. Save me, I'm lost. I'm in sin. I'm sick. He said, come to me, Michael. He called upon me. Stand up for a second. And he did this. He said, here's my coat. Here's my righteousness. And he put him on me. And now when God the Father sees me, he sees Jesus. When God the Father sees me, he sees Jesus, not the person who's really in there. He gave me his righteousness. And when he did, give it back. I don't know. No, no. Give me that back. I need this. Amen. That's the problem. That's the problem is people get this. They get the righteousness of God, right? They get it. God says, you are now my son. You are now my child. I call you holy and accepted by God. And you are the child of God. And people go, this is the best thing ever. This is great. But then you know what they do after a while? And they just leave it behind thinking it's no big deal. That's why I know I'm sick. And every day I need this coat. Every day I need his righteousness. Every day I need his love. Every day, every day, every day, every day. I need this, because only in this do I feel Him. Only in this do I absorb Him. Only in this do I know Him. And I love the feeling of Him, that I'm forgiven, I'm saved, I'm saved. I'm going to heaven when I die. All my sins are gone and he calls me his own. I can cry out, Abba, Father, Father. And he says, yes, my son. Not because of what's in here, but because of this. He gives it to us freely. That's why he says, put on the new man. Next verse, Brian. Isaiah 64, six says, but we are all as an unclean thing. And all our righteousness is. Think about that. Everything that we could do that's right. Everything that we could ever do that's good. All of our righteousness are as filthy rags to God. And we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. See, there's nothing you can do to make yourself good. Only he's good. There's nothing you can do to make yourself righteous. Only He's righteous. That's why I need Him. I need Him. I know I'm sick. I know I'm perverted. I'm unclean. I'm unholy. I know that these sins are out there and they're in this flesh and I hate them. And I come to God every day and He covers me. He covers me. And it makes, you know what happens? And I told Tammy this, my wife, the other day. I forget where I was going, but I'm channeling my inner Anton. And I went out and I bought some vests, all right? And you'll see, I got three vests. I went to Boscoff's and I got a bluish one, a blackish one, and a tan one, a tan, kind of tan. And I went to, matter of fact, where you at? Where's John? And we went to dinner and I wore one. Didn't I look good? You never complimented me though. I had a vest on, I felt good. And I told her this, I said, you know what, when you dress up, you feel better. When you're a little bit dressed up, you all of a sudden act a little better. You don't go, yo, what's up, man, when you got real nice clothes on. You know what I mean? You don't say, hey, and you start cursing and all that. You don't act filthy when you look good. It's just the truth. So I'm feeling pretty good about myself. You know what I mean? I'm like, I'm looking pretty good. I'm pretty spiffy. You know what I mean? I felt good. And that's what happens when he gives me his coat. I feel good. I feel like a Christian. I feel like I'm a good person. I may not be, but He sure is. And whenever you see me do anything at all that's a little bit good, remember, it's the coat. It's not me. Because inside dwells no good thing. But with the coat, with the coat, the cloak, I got His righteousness, Tony. I want you to look with me, if you would, please, to Philippians chapter 3 in verse 9. Book of Philippians is a great book. All of them are great. But it says, 3 verse 9 says, and this is what Apostle Paul wanted, ready? He wants to be found in him, not having my own righteousness, amen, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God. And he goes on to say, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death. Being found in him, not having my own coat, but having his, having his righteousness. How many people are righteous in this room? None. How many people know who's righteous? His name is Jesus Christ. He gives me, he gives me his righteousness. I know I don't look it. I know I don't sound it sometimes. And I know I don't act it sometimes, but God calls me his own. Revelation chapter 19, verse eight, It says this, we were going through in men's Bible study, which I think is this Tuesday. We're going through actually this chapter and it tells us something. It says in verse eight, it says, and to her, talking about the church, the children of God, it says, to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. The fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. He gives you the coat of righteousness. And you know what? If you think you're not sick, you don't need the coat. If you think you're not a sinner and that you're okay, you don't need the coat. And you're walking around in your own thinking that you are something when really you're filthy rags. Last verse and we'll finish with this. Look in Matthew. Everybody turn to Matthew 22 with me. I want you to see this and we'll finish. Matthew chapter 22. So the title of the message is, Are You Sick? We know it, right? So am I, buddy. It puts us all together, doesn't it? There's nobody higher than anyone else. There's nobody sicker than anyone else. There's nobody a sinner more than anyone else. That's why we can, Jesus could go and have dinner and feed and be with sinners. Cause that's why he came to save sinners. Matthew chapter 22, starting in verse one. Are you there? It says this. And Jesus answered and spoke unto them again a parable, and said, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son. And he sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, means invited to the wedding, and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden. Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come unto the marriage. Look what it says. They made light of it. I'm begging you right now, don't make light of the invitation. Jesus is calling sinners. Jesus is calling those that are hurt, those that are sick, those that need help. Please don't take it lightly that God would care that much about you, to die for you, to suffer for you, to bleed for you and send his son just for you. Look what it says. It says, and they went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise. And the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully and slew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth. And he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their cities. Then said he to his servants, the wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to come to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and they gathered together all, as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment." See, what the wedding garment is, is that everyone that was invited came, and they each got a coat. because they couldn't be in their own righteousness. They had to have the righteousness of God to be able to be worthy to come. And each one, come here, you. I know this will fit you perfectly. So here, put this on. They come into the wedding and he's got his coat on, right? You don't have to wrinkle my shirt up. And so he's got his coat on. So everyone's got the same coat. Everyone's got it. And the king comes in. He's all happy because he sees everybody. And what's he looking at? Righteous. You're righteous. You're righteous. And you're righteous. Because he's given you the coat of righteousness. And all of a sudden he comes in and there's one guy. Where is he? Larry, get over here. All right, I'll get this guy. Come here, you. I don't want to pick on you because he's a really good kid. He's good. Come here. And he comes in, he sees this one guy. He's a tough one. He's a tough cookie. He comes in, he goes, oh, look. And he sees this one guy and he doesn't have the coat on. And he says to him, if you read it, he says, friend, friend, how did you get in here without the coat? He couldn't say nothing. He had nothing to say because he came in with his own righteousness. He came in thinking, I'm worthy to come in. I'm worthy to be in here. I belong in heaven. I belong here. I'm a good person. And what the king did, he got really angry. You can read it yourself. And he got his servants and they bound him hand and foot. And they got him and they picked him up and they threw him out. They threw him out, but they threw him into hell. He went into hell. So there's wailing and gnashing of teeth. And he says, this is the way it's going to be. And so I'm just going to say, give me my coat back. When I came to Jesus, I came sick. I was a sinner. The worst thing you can be is righteous in your own eyes. Because you know what sinners do? Sinners know they're sinners. I did this before years ago. I used to go out soul winning and I'd go down, I went to Darby and I was in front of bars. And back then it was crack, a lot of crack. Crackheads everywhere. And I remember going out there and handing out gospel tracts. And every one of them, I'd say, are you a sinner? And they'd all, I'm a sinner. I belong in hell. It's a true story, true story. And I came off. Then I went to St. George's Roman Catholic Church, because I lived right there. And mass was out, and they were all coming out. And I tried to give them gospel tracts. And none of them would take them. And they'd all say, I don't need that. I don't need that. I don't need that. And they got mad at me, because I was trying to give them a gospel. And that's exactly what was happening in here, is that the religious people just said, I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners. And if you don't know the truth about yourself, then you're going to try to get into heaven on your own. And he said, we read the verse, all your righteousnesses, all your religion, all your things that you think you do is like filthy rags to God. The only way you're getting in is with the code, the code of righteousness. Me and Joe, we have a thing that 1991, he gave me the coat. I'm not taking it off. I'm keeping the coat, right Joe? I'm keeping the coat, man. I'm putting this coat on in the morning. Matter of fact, I'm sleeping in it. I'm getting up and the great thing about it is, it's new every morning. Because his mercies are new and his love is new. And it's always fresh and clean. And no matter how, I can't mess it up. And when I do mess it up, the coat washes me. The coat cleansed me because the coat is Jesus. and every day I put Him on, and every day I thank Him, and every day I know I need Him. Sometimes, sometimes though, sometimes, I go a little ways without the coat, I left it behind, and all of a sudden I start feeling bad, I start feeling miserable, and I feel dirty, and I'm like, what's wrong with my life? And I'm here, God's saying, where'd you leave me? And I run back to Him. I say, Jesus, forgive me. I love You. And with the blood of Jesus Christ, He washes me and cleanses me. And He calls me His own. And He gives me His coat back. And I am not giving up the coat. Are you sick? Are you a sinner? He's the physician. He's the Savior. He's the Son of God. He is God incarnate flesh, Emmanuel. He is that He is. Every head bowed and every eye closed and nobody looking around. This is an invitation for the wedding. This is an invitation to be with God forever. Please don't take light of it. Please don't think you don't need it. Please accept the invitation from God. Come to Him as you are a sinner needing salvation. Come to Him as you are. Please stand to your feet. Every head bowed, every eye closed. This altar is open. Come and bow before the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and give Him your heart. Give Him your sin. Right now, you come to this altar, and you can leave your sin behind. Come to this old-fashioned altar and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be cleansed. Let the blood of the Lamb of God cleanse you. the high priest that only can go into heaven for us. And he's there now, and his spirit is here now. The spirit of holiness and righteousness and faith, of goodness and mercy and love. I'm sick. I need a physician. Jesus, heal my broken heart. My heart's been broken. My heart's been crushed. Heal me, Jesus. Hold me, Jesus. I believe in you, Jesus. Call upon his name. Ask him to save you, and he will. Say, Jesus, I believe. I know I'm a sinner. I know I'm sick. I believe that you will heal me. Heal me, Jesus. Save me, Jesus. Take my sin. Cover me in your righteousness. Give me your cover. Exchange my sin for your love, for your righteousness, for your faith. I have Jesus Christ now. I've never given him up. I'm so thankful you, Jesus, that you would save a sinner like me, that you would call me your own, that you would love me like everyone else. You don't care what I've done. You only care if I acknowledge what I've done and come to you and ask you to forgive me. Jesus, forgive me. Save me. Wash me, cleanse me, and give me the robe of righteousness. Give me the coat. And I'll hold it, and I'll wear it, and I'll be so thankful for it. And I'll tell everyone about it, that you love me, and my sins are under the blood. I'll tell everyone, and I just pray for everyone in this room, that they would receive the invitation. How do they receive it? By receiving Jesus as your Savior. Are you sick? Call upon Jesus. Are you a sinner? Call upon Jesus. He's come to seek and to save that which was lost. If you're sitting in your seat right now, don't make excuses. Don't go your own way. Don't leave this place. Call upon his name. Say, Lord Jesus, save me, a sinner. I believe in you. In Jesus' name. Amen. It's that simple. You can come a sinner and leave a saint. You can come filthy and leave clean in the eyes of God. Amen.