Look what he continues to do. Covet your prayers
this evening. For some strange and unknown reason,
I accepted an invitation to preach a night of
revival at Brainerd Hills. I was out of my mind
when I don't know what I was doing the day he
called me to come on a Sunday night. But it'll
be at Brainerd Hills this evening. Some of our
music folks are going to help us out and help
the church out, small church. And we just want
to be a blessing to them. Amen? And so we'll
be in prayer for that service this evening. Six
o 'clock, I think, they start. Braintered heels.
Luke's Gospel, chapter 19. Beginning at verse
37. And when he was come nigh, even now at the
descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude
of the disciples began to rejoice and praise
God with a loud voice for all the mighty works
that they had seen, saying, Blessed be the King
that cometh in the name of the Lord. Peace in
heaven and glory in the highest. And some of
the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto
him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. There's always
some of them folk around. Amen. And he answered
and said unto them, I tell you that if these
should hold their peace, the stones would immediately
cry out. And when he was come near, he beheld
the city and wept over it, saying, If thou hast
known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the
things which belong unto thy peace, but now they
are hid from thine eyes, for the days shall come
upon thee. That thine enemies shall cast a trench
about thee and compass thee round and keep thee
in on every side. And shall lay thee even with
the ground and thy children within thee. And
they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another.
Because thou knewest not the time. Of thy visitation.
With the help from the Lord this morning. As
we step back in time again. I want to preach
on this thought. Don't miss your visit. Don't
miss your visit. Father I love you. I thank you
for your goodness and your mercy. Lord the anointing
that I know is stirring. In this house. I pray
now that you would continue to move. Continue
to bless. Stir our hearts and stir our minds.
Lord as we glorify thy name. In your house. In
your presence. Lord hearts have been lifted up.
Voices have been raised. Worship has extended
toward the heavens. So even now Lord. Our hearts
are prepared. Let the spirit move among us. May
the Holy Ghost speak to the hearts and minds
of your people. That as we leave here today,
we leave blessed. And we will give you the praise
for it all. In Christ's lovely name. The church
said, amen and amen. Tell your neighbor, don't
miss your visit. This passage that I've read
to you. most often is read and preached from
during the Easter season for Palm Sunday as it
is the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem
just prior to his crucifixion and resurrection.
But that's not what I'm going to preach on today.
From this text, there is one of the most powerful,
I think instances of the compassion of Christ
as he enters Jerusalem, he sees the city of God
and he just weeps for it. There is the shortest
scripture in the Bible that we most memorized
for memory verse, Jesus wept. But I'm not going
to talk about his weeping and his compassion
over Jerusalem. We want to focus today our attention
on the lack of vision, perception, and acceptance
of God's people of His Son. Verse 42 reads, Their
spiritual Messiah, for the sake of an earthly
king, they wanted out from under the hand of
Rome more than they did the sin that God could
deliver them from. They wanted out from under
Rome so they could exercise their own authority
and exercise their own power and be themselves
more so than to surrender and accept The son
of the living God. Who had multiple proofs of
his existence of being the son of God. The manifestation
of God's power was before their eyes. None other
had raised the dead. None other had opened blinded
eyes. None other had opened deaf ears. In accordance
to Isaiah 61. Where the prophet then, that eagle
-eyed prophet 700 plus years before the birth
of Christ would prophesy. The spirit of the Lord
is upon me for he has anointed me to preach the
gospel. Right? Heal the bruised. Deliver the
captive. Set at liberty. Open the blinded eyes.
But yet they failed to put Christ in the prophecy.
So now the end is nearing for sure. He's about
to be the sacrifice for you and I. And so as
he's approaching the city, he's making this visit.
You and I, many times, we have visitors at home,
not as much as it used to be. How many of you
remember the day of yesteryear when you'd be
sitting on the porch in the evening without a
text? Somebody would just pull up in the driveway,
get out, well, come on the porch. Or here's a
seat, grab a chair under the shade tree because
we'd be relaxing. And the visit would last who
knows how long. Visits were surprises and they
were some looked for and some were longing for
them to leave. We know what it is to expect visitors.
But in the south, if you're new to the south,
if somebody says, I'll be over after a while,
don't get in a hurry. You've got a few minutes.
Right? Or if they say, well, we might run by
directly. How many knows what directly is? That's
after a while. But the caveat there is we might.
But they might not. So you don't know if you're
going to have company or not. Sometimes you do.
Sometimes we did. And sometimes they just never
made it by without a text to say they weren't
coming. And we survived. Amen? We survived. We
survived the letdown. If they didn't come by,
well, maybe they'll come by tomorrow. And they
just might. Right? To visit just simply means
to go to or to receive. God has often shown himself
as a visitor in our lives and the lives of many.
Beginning from creation of humanity. He's always
visited his creation. God has always visited
his creation. Why? Because he longs to be with
his creation. He created humanity so that he
could be with humanity. He created humanity without
sin so that he and his holiness could walk among
and commune with his creation. What a novel idea.
Amen? What a grand and glorious thought that
would be. He always desires to be among his people.
And the good thing about a visit from God is
you might not ever know when he's going to show
up, but he's never late. He's always on time.
And you never know why God is going to stop by
your life. You never know what he's going to
bring into your life. But I know this, any and
every visit from God leaves the visited one different
than when he showed up. Hallelujah. And so I
want us not to miss the visit that God has in
our life. And as the Scripture shows us, that
God would visit at various times for various
reasons. In Genesis 3 and 8, as I've already
declared to you, that God desired to be with
his creation, they heard the voice of the Lord
God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day. And they hid themselves, Adam and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of the Lord
God amongst the trees of the garden. I know this
is the visitation that they did not want to have.
This was the one that they, you see them turn
off the driveway if you've got any distance and
you run to the back of the house so you don't
hear them knock on the door and you ignore all
that stuff that you try to do so that you don't
have to have the visit. That's exactly what Adam
and Eve are doing. They heard the voice of God
in the cool of the day. Can I tell you, it wasn't
the first evening that God ever come to walk
with his creation. It lets me know that they
have had communion with him before on. many different
occasions, and it was a familiar thing for them.
It wasn't a strange and odd thing that God show
up, but it looks to me like it was something
that maybe God would do about every evening.
He would come in the cool of the day and stroll
through the garden and commune with his created
beings, amen, those whom he had created in his
own likeness and his own image. Why? So that
he could be with them and they could be with
him. And there he is now. He's having to hunt.
them out. God didn't have to hunt them out. Amen.
He knew exactly which bush they were hiding behind.
But don't you just love it when God shows up?
He's inquiring toward us. He said, Adam, where
art thou, Adam? Well, Lord, I'm over here. I'm
hid. Well, why are you hiding? I am naked, God.
Well, it didn't bother you yesterday evening,
so why is it bothering you this evening? Who
told you you were naked? Can I share with you
sometimes God just wants to come and walk? with
you. He just wants to come and talk with you.
If you've never heard this song in the garden,
go look at it. Go listen to it. Look it up. YouTube
it. And you'll hear a beautiful rendition of
how I feel like it might have been with Adam
and Eve in the cool of the day. I come to the
garden alone. Amen. And that voice I hear falling
on my ear gently calling. That's what it was.
God was just simply coming to visit his creation
just to be with them. I don't know about you,
but There are days I just need God to just show
up and walk with me and talk with me and tell
me I am his own. I know there's sin there. I
know sin resides. But through the fount that
flows from Jesus' precious blood, it has cleansed
me and purified me. And as long as I walk upright,
then I know that I can expect a visit from God
on any given day at any given moment of the day.
Matter of fact, I invite him throughout the course
of every single day. Lord, I want to walk with
you. And just to know that he will come and visit
just for visiting's sake. That's the first way.
You don't want to miss that. You don't want to
miss that. You don't want God to show up and
say, hey, first of all, before I can get close
to you, come out from behind that bush and let's
get some sin taken care of. Let's deal with it.
No, I just want God to feel at ease and my life
to be upright before him through his son that
he can just come anytime he wants to. Hallelujah.
Matter of fact, about 345 this morning, he come
into my bedroom and visited me. Hallelujah. Just
to let me. and know that I am his own. Don't
miss your visit. I don't want to sleep through
those moments. I don't want to have sin be the
regard to keep God's company away, but I want
to be upright before him that my visit can happen
at any moment. There are many others throughout
the book of Genesis that God would just visit.
He appeared unto Abram in the land of Ur of the
Chaldees, didn't he? He called him out. He visited
with him there. In that visit, he said, lift
up your eyes and count the stars that's in the
heavens. I'm going to make a covenant with you,
Abram. I'm going to make a promise to you, and
it's more than a promise. I am the guarantor.
Hallelujah. I'm the author of it. I'm the originator
of what I'm about to tell you. If you'll just
leave everything, forsake everything, and just
get away from here, wherever your foot shall
trod, you just lay out the boundary, and that'll
be the property line, and that'll belong to you,
and those stars that you cannot count, your descendants
will flow from you. And not just for him only.
He visited with his son. Did he not visit Isaac?
Did he not visit Jacob? Jacob lays his head upon
a pillow, and he thinks he's getting away from
his brother Esau. He's running for his very life.
He's thought he's escaped, but let me tell somebody
in here today, you may feel like you're trying
to escape from something that's after you. Esau
was out to get Jacob, but look, he thought he
was running away from it, and some of you may
even feel like you're getting away from something
that's trying to take over your life and trying
to take and pull you down. But if you'll ever
stop for a minute, you may just have a visitor
show up in your life. It's in the camp the evening
at a place called Bethel that he lays his head
upon a stone pillar. And in that night, he had
a visitation from God. There's a ladder that's
extended to the heavens and angels going up and
down. My God, and there's a reaffirmation of
a covenant that was made to his dad and then
to his granddad. It was also reaffirmed to him.
Here's what I'm going to do for you, Isaac. going
to be blessed. He was the son of prophet Abraham.
Makes that trail and that trek up Mariah's mountain
for another visit in worship. Can I tell you
God will show up and visit you in your moment
of worship if you'll just sacrifice and be willing
to lay it all. He will visit you in your moment
of worship and he'll do something great for you.
You don't have to outrun it. Don't miss your
visit. Don't become so preoccupied with the trial
that you miss your visit from God. Moses, Exodus
3 and 4, we sung about it just a minute ago.
Moses had a visit in the desert on the backside.
Oh, how many of you have ever felt like you're
wandering around on the backside of the desert?
You're way past the pace. Way past being out
of sight, out of mind. You're way on the other
side of that. On the back side of the desert.
And he thought he had escaped everything that
Egypt had to hold for him. But can I tell you,
sometimes you feel like you may be running away,
but you're running headlong into a visit with
God. And it was there. Listen to what, when the
Lord saw that he turned aside to see, we've got
an old shepherd on the backside. He's not even
tending his own flock. He's tending the flock
of his father and everybody else, and he's way
off over there. But can I tell you, sometimes
God will get you singled out just so he can visit
with you. My God. God, don't think it's a strange
thing that's coming against you because it's
just God separating you so that he can show up.
He don't need distractions. He don't need anybody
else. What he needs is you all alone. And you
and I cannot afford to miss our visit. So don't
be hanging your head. Pick your lip up. Get your
shoe top off of it. Get your head lifted up.
Lift your eyes to the hills from where your help
comes from. Your help's coming from the Lord.
But I'm on the backside of the desert. I'm all
alone. No, you are not. You are being singled
and separated. so that God could come up and
visit with you. And when the Lord saw that he
turned aside to see, Moses would have walked
right on by. But when he looked and he saw something
that caught his eye, it was a bush burning, but
yet not being consumed. And he turned to see.
And when the Lord saw that, he knew he had him.
He had a visitor that day, my Lord. And when
he turned to see the Lord, God called unto him
out of the midst of the bush. And he said, Moses,
Moses. And he said, here. Here am I. Look, you
can't miss your visit. You've got to recognize
the voice of your father. And when he begins
to speak to you, even in your dilemma, even in
your outcast feeling, you've still got to have
an ear turned toward the father's voice. And
when he calls your name, stop. Here I am. As
you approach him, take your shoes off. You're
on holy ground. You've come as far as you can
in what's carrying you here. It wasn't just about
the shoes. It was about the contact with the
holy. It was about getting the flesh in contact
with the holy. Take your shoes off, son. You're
on holy ground because you're going to need everything
that I'm about to give you. You're going to need
all the power that I can pour into you. So just
come on down. Get a little closer. Come on in
here tight, Moses. I've got a job for you. Can
I tell you, a lot of times we don't want to hear
what God's got to say because he may have a job
for us. He may have a responsibility for us.
Here's what I need you to do, Moses. I need you
to go back to Egypt and get my people and bring
them out. the one who was brought out of the
river. You are the one who I have ordained to
be the deliverer of my people and I will empower
you. Here's the first thing you don't do. Do
not start making excuses when God comes to visit
you. He don't want your excuses. All he wants
is your surrender. Oh, he began to stutter. He
didn't have a problem when he was standing beside
a Pharaoh executing judgment over God's people
or anybody else. He spoke with a stutter and
he had authority when he spoke it. Now God didn't
want to hear his excuses. He said, I want you
to be the mouthpiece. I can't do it. Well, here's
what, you're not getting out of it that easy.
I will tell Aaron, you tell him, and he will
go and speak and be your mouthpiece. But you're
not getting out. How am I going to take authority?
What do you got in your hand? I've got a rod.
Well, throw the thing down, Moses. And when he
threw it down, it turned into a serpent. That's
when I left right there the wilderness. I'd have
been done. got to come up with something else
other than a serpent. Give me a lizard. Give
me pound for pound the meanest critter in the
woods, a coon. I'll take him by the, a tiger,
but a snake, Lord. He reaches and it turns to
the rod again. Now, here's what you're going
to do. And he received a mandate from God. You
never know what your visit may not turn into
a mandate from God. God hadn't just called you
just to save and spare you hell. He's called
and saved you in order to empower you that others
may be saved from hell, not just you. My God,
he's empowered you with a purpose and a plan,
and he's already given us a mandate going to
all the world and seeking to save those who are...
Teach them the gospel. Hallelujah. We get so
caught up in witnessing. It's not our authority.
It's not our power. When you proclaim the power
of the gospel, it's a stumbling block to some.
But it's the power of God unto salvation to others.
When we understand when God visits with us, we've
been mandated. You'll visit, will you? Joshua
5, 13. Don't miss your visit. These fellows,
they're keeping their visit. It came to pass
when Joshua was by Jericho, God called unto him
out of the mist. As he's by Jericho, that he
lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there
stood a man over against him with his sword drawn
in his hand. One of my favorite stories right
here. Joshua went unto him and he said unto him,
Art thou for us or for our adversaries? Nay,
was the old boy's answer. Now they had to puzzle
young Joshua. What do you mean, nay? You're either
for us or against us. Now which one is it? Neither.
Well, who are you? Well, I am the captain of
the host of the Lord's army. That's who I'll
be. I can just, in my mind, I read between the
lines a lot. I can see this sword -drawn captain
talking to Joshua. If you're on my side, I'm
for you. If you're not, I'm against you. I'm
here as captain of the host of the Lord's army.
Now, if you're with us, we're good. But if you're
with them, it's not going to turn out so good.
And he falls to his face. But what I love about
this visit. Is that Joshua was prepared to confront
the man before he found out who he was. When
he saw him over there, he didn't run, he didn't
try to hide. He was on a mission, remember? He
done heard from God, Moses, my servant's dead,
you're in charge. What a visit that would be.
Huh? What a visit that would be. God shows up
and says, hey. He tells you, James, on Friday,
Pastor Cliff's dead. I buried him. They don't
even know where he's at, but you're preaching
Sunday. Yeah, see? Same thing. It's the same
thing with Joshua. Huh? I'm doing what? Well,
I can't. We start right there. I can't do that.
You're right. You can, but he can through you.
He approaches the soldier ready for battle without
fear. Why? Because he had already had a visit.
God, you've done had a visit. You don't have
to run. You don't have to hide. It doesn't matter
if they're for you or for them. Get on up there
and find out. You never know. It may be God saying,
I am on the side of the Lord. And if you're on
his side, we're about to take a mighty victory.
We are about to conquer because the promise that
he has made to you in that visit is going to
come to pass. As I was with Moses, so shall I
be with you. No man will stand in front of you.
Let's go take Jericho. What a visit. You can
take the devil. Well, like that you won't. You
won't. There should be, at some point, there
should be a stirring in the depth of your soul.
I know we want to be passive as much as we can,
but you can't be passive with the devil. You
can't be dismissive with the devil. You've got
to be violent with the devil. Oh, you're promoting
violence with the devil. Yes, I am. Oh, yeah,
a proponent of it. If I weren't a proponent of
it, then why have I got all this armor to do
it with? If God wasn't for it and not against
it, why did he give me all of this to do it with?
Why do I have the sword of his word? Why do I
have the security of his salvation firmly ingripped
on my mind? Why do I go forth with righteousness
in front of me? Why do I walk in the shed preparation
of the gospel of truth? Why do I have truth wrapped
around? Why do I have a shield of faith if I
don't need it? I'm here to tell you my shield's
dented up, but my blade isn't. It may be chipped.
It may be a little rusty because I'm on the battlefield
and I'm in the weather and I'm in the trench.
But I tell you one thing, it is sharp and ready
to do damage. Don't be afraid of the enemy. Confront
him. This is no place. I almost said this is
no place for the limp -wristed and the liver
-livered. Lily -livered. You've heard that. Some
of you have, old enough to know. What's that
mean? Don't be scared. Don't be weak. Don't be
frightened. Why? The devil's big. Greater is,
come on now. Are you going to make me preach?
Greater is he that is in you than he that is
in this world. Christ has conquered. Christ has
conquered. It's Christ who is in us who reveals
the hope of eternal glory. It's Christ in us.
Don't miss your visit. What if Joshua would have
ran? I'm glad he didn't. Who else had a visit?
1 Kings 19, 11 through 13. Go forth and stand
upon the mount before the Lord. And behold, the
Lord passed by in a great wind and an earthquake
and fire. And then a still, small voice. Elijah
almost missed his visit. What a travesty that
would have been. Now we're talking about a man
of God who just prior had been on top of the
same mountain. Prayed a little old simple prayer
after he had poked fun at the devil's prophets.
Cut yourself some more, boys. Shout a little
louder, he may be asleep. Oh, he was wearing
them out. You're talking about trash talking.
Elijah was a trash talker. Oh, he goaded them
all day long until it got about the time for
the evening sacrifice. He said, it's about time
for my visit. Get out of the way, put me up some
new stones, build me a new altar. Dig a ditch
around that thing. What do we need a ditch for,
Elijah? We're going to pour barrels of water
in. We're going to do what? Don't you know we're
in a drought? Yes, I know. I'm the one who spoke
it a little over three years ago, and I know
we're in a drought. Dig the ditch and pour the
water in. Saturate the altar. Saturate the wood.
Saturate. Let it be a soggy sacrifice. And then
he just simply prays. Can I tell you, you don't
have to go on a 19 -page expose to get God to
hear you. It can be as simple. God, you watch
these idiots down here all day. You've seen this
fiasco that's gone on. This would be the way
I'd pray. Elijah didn't pray this way. You've
watched it. You told me it wouldn't rain until
I said it was going to rain. But to prove to
this bunch of nod heads that you are God, today's
the showdown. It's the Mount Carmel showdown.
Just to prove to them. I know, God, you don't
have to prove a thing to me. But to them. And
it's been laid down that the God that answers
by fire, let him be God. So let me back up a
little. I'm about to move. I can see him saying,
where are you going? I'm getting out of the way.
Why? Because fire is about to fall. And not just
a spark, but there's an ember from glory about
to hit this place. And it did. More than the
sacrifice went up in smoke, the stones went up
in smoke. Matter of fact, it was as steamy as
a sauna because all those barrels of water were
evaporating. And then the man of God goes over
to the cliffside so he could... pray out toward
the Mediterranean. I've been up there. It was
probably, I want to say that was probably one
of my most memorable moments of being in the
Holy Land. Because there's an unquestionable,
there's only one Mount Carmel, right? And it
ain't that big once you get up there. And standing
out there looking toward the Mediterranean Sea,
my Lord, I had. It just come up my spine. I thought,
boy, right here. Right here is where the fire
fell. Right here. Right in here somewhere is
where the finger of God ignited a sacrifice.
I began to get excited thinking about that because
I know the rest of the story. As he's over on
the cliff's edge looking and he sends his servant,
what do you see? Nothing. Can I tell you, you
may have to go more than once. To get your visit,
you may have to show up more than twice. It may
take more three, four, five times. You may have
to show up a dozen times, but don't stop short
of your visit. On the seventh trip comes back,
the servant says, Master, all I see is a little
old bitty cloud way out over the sea about the
size of my hand. My Lord, it hadn't even been
that cloudy in three years. And oh, the prophet
knew they were about to have a divine visitation.
He leaps to his feet. He takes his old robe and
he girds it up and he ties it around his waist
and he gets ready to run. And as he's going by,
he tells old King Ahab, you better get off the
mountain because I hear the sound of the abundance
of rain and the power of God hit the man of God
and he ran out. Ran the chariots of Ahab and
he made it all the way. My God, he outran them.
But you can't outrun your trouble. But your visit
prepares you to conquer your trouble. He stops
when he hears the report. Jezebel's mad. Well,
good. I almost had a comment about Jezebels,
but I'm going to leave that alone. It has nothing
to do with a visit from God. Other than to say,
that spirit still exists. As he runs from the
report, your head will be off of your shoulders
as soon as I can find you. Despair strikes the
man of God who just outran chariots. Fire fell,
consumes, and it's already starting to sprinkle.
And he's sitting under a juniper tree. Oh, I
just wish I was like my fathers before me, just
dead. Woe is me. Oh, despair. If it wasn't for
bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. As he's sitting
there sipping on juniper berry juice. Probably
as bitter as persimmons squeezed early. Draw
you up like alum. That's the way he's looking.
Don't take that picture. She's sneaky with his
phone. That would have been the one that would
have made it. He's sitting there. Having his
own pity party. I'm all by myself. And he has
a visit. Look, boy, would you hush? Water's parallel.
Paraphrase. Nowhere near divine. You like that,
baby? Would you shut up? Would you get up from
here? I'm not finished with you yet, man of God.
I didn't do all that just to let her take your
life. That's not, can I tell somebody, he hasn't
done everything he's done in your life just to
get you to this point and forsake you. Pour your
juniper juice out. Come on. Straighten this up.
Get a little joy in your soul. And get ready
for your divine visit from God. Because he's
going to tell you, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to send you some groceries, son. So
he was fed by the ravens. I don't know why the
Lord liked to use ravens, but he did, didn't
he? And so there he is. He said, now get up and
go till I tell you to stop. And he went 40 days
in that good lunch. And he finds himself. In
our text. In a cave. And then he hears his visitor.
What you doing here, Lodge? But you know what's
so good about it when God shows up? He doesn't
rehearse your failures. He didn't go over Elijah's
failures and what brought him to where he was
at. He just simply gave him his next man. Go
out here and stand, and I'll be right back. I
want you to watch what all is happening. The
earth is shaking, rocks falling, winds howling
and blowing. Fire comes through, and God was
in none of it. But then he said, Elijah, anoint
Jehu, anoint Elisha in your stead, and get on
about our business. Not a word about what had
just happened. He's not worried about the past.
He's not worried about your failure. You make
it right with him, it's right with him. He's
not worried about what got you to where you are.
He's just worried about getting you to the next
assignment. What a visit. Stand with me. I'm
just going to rush through these last few. You
don't want me to take all this kind of time.
Luke 1, Mary has a visit. An angel came in unto
her and said to her, Hail thou that are highly
favored. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou
among women. Shepherds have a visit. Angelic
beings in heaven. For unto you this day a Savior
is born in the city of David. Go see him. Right?
Visit the Lord. 19 and 5. Earlier in our text
when Jesus came to the place he looked up and
he saw him. and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make
haste, for I'm going to your house today. Wow.
Zacchaeus, the tax collector, as Brother Randy
pointed out so beautifully that evening, not
just any old tax collector, but he was on up
the chain, a chief tax collector. And he stops
not by coincidence. You need to make a note of
this in your mind. If he comes to where you are,
it's not a coincidence. It's not an accident.
He's there on purpose. Zacchaeus, son, get down
here. Get on toward the house. I'll be there
directly. And he did. He showed up. Zacchaeus
begins to tell him, Lord, this visit has changed
my life. You stopping, addressing me has changed
my life. If I have taken anything unjustly from
any man, I'll restore it unto him fourfold. Now,
can I tell you, if you get a greedy tax collector,
first of all, to admit that they extorted, you've
accomplished something. But then to go one step
further and proclaim restoration, you've got
transformation. That's what's happened to those
who, when he come by. You do realize that we
can't get saved when we want to. We receive salvation
when the Spirit draws as Jesus. So the invitation
is given. And we accept. What a visit. How many
remember your salvation visit? My Lord, I let
my mind go to that several times just so I'm
refreshed. And so when the enemy comes by to
tell me that I'm not saved, it's ready in my
mind and I just go right there and say, be gone.